Mack, Peter,   1955- <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-328) and index. 
<br/><br/>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 <br/> .rhetorics -- Conclusion : Renaissance rhetoric 
<br/><br/> Describes the most important individual contributions to the development of Renaissance rhetoric and analyzes the new ideas which Renaissance thinkers <br/> .contributed to rhetorical theory 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199597284 0199597286 9780199679997 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011500107 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rhetoric, Renaissance--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN183  / .M335 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.009024  / MPH