Rhetoric in the monastic tradition
Subtitle: a textual study
By: John P. Bequette
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433117978
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders; Christian literature; History and criticism; Rhetoric; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The transformation of desire in the rule of St. Benedict; title: The rhetoric of expectation: Bede's Advent homily on Mark 1:4-8; title: Anselm's letter to Lanzo: monastic stability of the mind; title: The monk as minor ecclesia in Peter Damian's The book of "the Lord be with you"; title: Rhetoric and self-knowledge in Bernard's sermons on the Song of songs.