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

By: Mack, Peter, 1955-Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford-Warburg studiesPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: vii, 345 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780199597284; 0199597286; 9780199679997Subject(s): Rhetoric, Renaissance -- HistoryDDC classification: 808.009024 LOC classification: PN183 | .M335 2011
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
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
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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

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