Description |
vii, 345 p. ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Oxford-Warburg studies |
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Oxford-Warburg studies.
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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.
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ISBN |
9780199597284 |
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0199597286 |
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