A history of Renaissance rhetoric, 1380-1620 /

Mack, Peter, 1955-

A history of Renaissance rhetoric, 1380-1620 / Peter Mack. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - vii, 345 p. ; 23 cm. - Oxford-Warburg studies . - Oxford-Warburg studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-328) and index.

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

Describes the most important individual contributions to the development of Renaissance rhetoric and analyzes the new ideas which Renaissance thinkers
.contributed to rhetorical theory

9780199597284 0199597286 9780199679997

2011500107


Rhetoric, Renaissance--History.

PN183 / .M335 2011

808.009024 / MPH

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