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Author Mack, Peter, 1955-

Title A history of Renaissance rhetoric, 1380-1620 / Peter Mack.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  808.009024 M19h 2011    ---  Available
Description vii, 345 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Oxford-Warburg studies
Oxford-Warburg studies.
Contents Introduction and origins -- Diffusion and reception of Classical rhetoric -- Italy 1390-1480 -- Rudolph Agricola -- Erasmus -- Northern Europe 1519-1545 : the age of Melanchthon -- Northern Europe 1545-1580 : Ramus and company -- Southern Europe in the sixteenth century -- New syntheses 1600-1620 : Keckermann, Vossius, and Caussin -- Manuals of tropes and figures -- Letter-writing manuals -- Preaching manuals and legal dialectics -- Vernacular rhetorics -- Conclusion : Renaissance rhetoric.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-328) and index.
Summary Describes the most important individual contributions to the development of Renaissance rhetoric and analyzes the new ideas which Renaissance thinkers contributed to rhetorical theory.
Subject Rhetoric, Renaissance -- History.
ISBN 9780199597284
0199597286

 
    
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