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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.
What were the boundaries between 'official' and 'subversive',
'orthodox' and 'dissenting' critical practices in the Middle Ages?
Placing medieval critical and intellectual discourses within their
cultural and ideological frameworks, Criticism and Dissent in the
Middle Ages examines conflicts of gender, violence, academic
freedom, hermeneutical authority, sacramentalism and heresy among
so-called official as well as dissenting critical orders.
Pedagogies, theories of grammar and rhetoric, poetics and
hermeneutics, academic 'sciences', clerical professionalism,
literacy, visual images, theology, and textual cultures of heresy
are all considered. This 1996 collection of essays by major
scholars examines medieval critical discourse, theories of
textuality and interpretation, and representations of learning and
knowledge - as contesting and contested institutional practices
within and between Latin and vernacular cultures.
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to
students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own
historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly,
systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the
allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range.
Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest
systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosophy,
mystical religion, and hermeneutics. Once the earliest histories
and themes of the allegorical tradition have been presented, the
volume turns to literary, intellectual, and cultural manifestations
of allegory through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The essays in
the last section address literary and theoretical approaches to
allegory in the modern era, from reactions to allegory in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to reevaluations of its power
in the thought of the twentieth century and beyond.
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to
students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own
historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly,
systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the
allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range.
Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest
systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosophy,
mystical religion, and hermeneutics. Once the earliest histories
and themes of the allegorical tradition have been presented, the
volume turns to literary, intellectual, and cultural manifestations
of allegory through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The essays in
the last section address literary and theoretical approaches to
allegory in the modern era, from reactions to allegory in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to reevaluations of its power
in the thought of the twentieth century and beyond.
What were the boundaries between 'official' and 'subversive',
'orthodox' and 'dissenting' critical practices in the Middle Ages?
Placing medieval critical and intellectual discourses within their
cultural and ideological frameworks, Criticism and Dissent in the
Middle Ages examines conflicts of gender, violence, academic
freedom, hermeneutical authority, sacramentalism and heresy among
so-called official as well as dissenting critical orders.
Pedagogies, theories of grammar and rhetoric, poetics and
hermeneutics, academic 'sciences', clerical professionalism,
literacy, visual images, theology, and textual cultures of heresy
are all considered. This 1996 collection of essays by major
scholars examines medieval critical discourse, theories of
textuality and interpretation, and representations of learning and
knowledge - as contesting and contested institutional practices
within and between Latin and vernacular cultures.
This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of
intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English
heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland places heretical and
orthodox attitudes to learning in a long historical perspective
that reaches back to antiquity. She shows how educational
ideologies of ancient lineage left their imprint on the most
sharply politicized categories of late medieval culture, and how
radical teachers transformed inherited ideas about classrooms and
pedagogy as they brought their teaching to adult learners. The
pedagogical imperatives of Lollard dissent were also embodied in
the work of certain public figures, intellectuals whose dissident
careers transformed the social category of the medieval
intellectual. Looking closely at the prison narratives of two
Lollard preachers, Copeland shows how their writings could serve as
examples for their fellow dissidents and forge a new rapport
between academic and non-academic communities.
New Medieval Literatures Volume 7 spotlights methodologies and
practices in medieval textual studies. Ten challenging new essays
together explore contemporary medievalist practices in and beyond
the academy; review and critique disciplinary cultures in medieval
studies past and present; and experiment with new paradigms. As
usual, the volume showcases work by leading scholars together with
work by striking new voices. In this volume's analytical survey
'Actually existing Anglo-Saxon Studies', Clare Lees imagines
alternatives to current disciplinary culture. Other essays are
Wendy Scase, 'The Medievalist's Tale' (introduction); Stephanie
Trigg, 'Walking through Cathedrals: Scholars, Pilgrims, and
Medieval Tourists'; Steve Ellis, 'Framing the Father: Chaucer and
Virginia Woolf'; Daniel Wakelin, 'William Worcester writes a
History of his Reading'; Mishtooni Bose, 'Vernacular Philosophy and
the Making of Orthodoxy in the Fifteenth Century'; Melissa Raine,
'"Fals Flesch": Food and the Embodied Piety of Margery Kempe'; Lisa
H. Cooper, 'Urban Utterances: Merchants, Artisans, and the Alphabet
in Caxton's Dialogues in French and English'; Seeta Chaganti, '"A
Form as Grecian Goldsmiths make": Enshrining Narrative in Chretien
de Troyes's Cliges and the Stavelot Triptych'; and Christopher
Cannon, 'Between the Old and the Middle of English'.
New Medieval Literatures 5 features innovative articles from leading senior scholars. Subjects include the cultural significance of Virgil's Aeneid during the English Peasants' Revolt, images of the pagan past in fourteenth-century London, medieval stage accidents and modern corollaries, and a survey of recent research on medieval women's literacy. Other essays offer original studies of martyrdom and the aesthetics of pain, sainthood and power, and virginity and erotic desire.
New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures.
This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland shows how how radical teachers transformed inherited ideas about classrooms and pedagogy as they brought their teaching to adult learners. The pedagogical imperatives of Lollard dissent were also embodied in the work of certain public figures, intellectuals whose dissident careers transformed the social category of the medieval intellectual.
New Medieval Literatures is an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures. Volume 3 combines important work by established scholars with the results of the editors' quest for major new voices, including the prizewinning essay in their first competition for younger scholars. The themes of the volume are the production of knowledge and text, cultural change and exchange, from early medieval China to fifteenth-century England. There are also paired and contrasting essays on Dante and on Langland. The volume ends with Sarah Kay's important survey of modern medievalist scholarship, the New Philology.
New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on the textual cultures of medieval Europe and beyond. The focus of Volume 2 is on continental European literatures as well as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin writings, in addition to exemplification of work on earlier periods. The essays in Volume 2 move from the streets of Paris, London, and English market towns to English monasteries, idealized pastoral spaces, Christian-Jewish-Muslim Spain, Rome, and fourteenth-century Oxford. The essays cohere around three important issues of cultural analysis: gender, space, and reading history.
This is the first book to consider the rise of translation as part of a broader history of critical discourses from classical Rome to the late Middle Ages, and sheds light on its crucial role in the development of vernacular European culture.
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.
This is the first book to consider the rise of translation as part
of a broader history of critical discourses from classical Rome to
the late Middle Ages, and sheds light on its crucial role in the
development of vernacular European culture.
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