A history of Renaissance rhetoric, 1380-1620
By: Peter Mack
Series: Oxford-Warburg studies; Oxford-Warburg studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780199597284
Subjects: Renaissance Rhetoric; History
Description: Describes the most important individual contributions to the development of Renaissance rhetoric and analyzes the new ideas which Renaissance thinkers contributed to rhetorical theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and origins; title: Diffusion and reception of Classical rhetoric; title: Italy 1390-1480; title: Rudolph Agricola; title: Erasmus; title: Northern Europe 1519-1545 : the age of Melanchthon; title: Northern Europe 1545-1580 : Ramus and company; title: Southern Europe in the sixteenth century; title: New syntheses 1600-1620 : Keckermann, Vossius, and Caussin; title: Manuals of tropes and figures; title: Letter-writing manuals; title: Preaching manuals and legal dialectics; title: Vernacular rhetorics; title: Conclusion : Renaissance rhetoric.