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Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
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Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with
generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a
continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were
understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical
circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric
in the West, from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages,
represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the
first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions,
coloring that rhetorical history between about 600 CE and the cusp
of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other
periods, constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in
emotionally persuasive writing. Medieval rhetorical thought on
emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations of
practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated
emotional persuasion as a property of surface stylistic effect,
which can be seen in the medieval rhetorics of poetry and prose,
and in literary production. But the impact of Aristotelian
rhetoric, which reached the Latin West in the thirteenth century,
gave emotional persuasion a core role in reasoning, incorporating
it into the key device of proof, the enthymeme. In Aristotle,
medieval teachers and writers found a new rhetorical language to
explain the social and psychological factors that affect an
audience. With Aristotelian rhetoric, the emotions became
political. The impact of Aristotle's rhetorical approach to
emotions was to be felt in medieval political treatises, in poetry,
and in preaching.
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