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Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory,
AD 300-1475 contributes to two fields, the history of the language
arts and the history of literary theory. It brings together
essential sources in the disciplines of grammar and rhetoric which
were used to understand literary form and language and teach
literary composition. Grammar and rhetoric, the language
disciplines, formed the basis of any education from antiquity
through the Middle Ages, no matter what future career a student
would want to pursue. Because literature was also the subject
matter of grammatical teaching, and because rhetorical teaching
gave great attention to literary form, these were also the
disciplines that would prepare students for an understanding of
literary language and form. These arts constituted the abiding
theoretical toolbox for anyone engaged in a life of letters. The
book brings together more than fifty primary texts from the
medieval history of grammar and rhetoric, well over half of them
never translated into English before. The volume establishes the
ancient traditions on which the medieval arts are based, and gives
substantial selections from the late antique source texts. All
texts are presented in their historical and theoretical contexts,
and carefully annotated in order to make them useful to readers,
both specialists and non-specialists. For the first time, the long
traditions of grammar and rhetoric are presented together in one
historical survey, showing how they related to each other, and are
placed in a coherent conceptual structure, their contributions to
literary theory.
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