1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390952003316

Autore

Brookbank Joseph <b. 1612.>

Titolo

The compleat school-master in two books [[electronic resource] ] : more exact and judicious for the entring of children to read English, then were ever any yet extant. Consisting of viz. an English syllabary, and an English monosyllabary. / / Composed for general good by John Brocksbank, minister and school-master in Jerusalem Court Fleetstreet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Edward Brewster at the Crane in Paul's Church-yard, 1660 [i.e. 1659]

Descrizione fisica

[2], 34, [46] p

Altri autori (Persone)

BrookbankJoseph <b. 1612.>

Soggetti

Readers - 1500-1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

An edition of: Two books more exact and judicious for the entring of children to spell and read English than were ever yet extant.

"An English monosyllabary (Wing B4975) has separate title page with imprint: Printed at London, 1651.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Octob: 1659"; "1659 Oct. 24"; the imprint date has been crossed out.

An English syllabary .. monosyllabary are bracketed together on the title page.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782633203321

Autore

Auksi Peter <1942->

Titolo

Christian plain style : the evolution of a spiritual ideal / / Peter Auksi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Buffalo : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1995

ISBN

1-282-85707-X

9786612857072

0-7735-6489-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 371 pages)

Disciplina

230/.014

Soggetti

Language and languages - Religious aspects - Christianity

Rhetoric - Religious aspects - Christianity

Rhetoric - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-363) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Christian Literary Culture and the Study of Simplicity -- The Plain Style in Classical Rhetoric -- Scripture and the Creative Motive -- Channels of Transmission: Augustine and Paul -- The Church Fathers and Christian Style -- Medieval Rhetoric and the Art of Simplicity -- Regenerate Art: The Major Reformers -- Renaissance Plainness: Sources, Contexts, and Uses -- Spiritual Rhetoric and the English Reformation -- Epilogue: Decline and Transformation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Locating the roots of the plain style in secular and philosophic classicism, Auksi examines theories on classical rhetoric from Demetrius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus to Cicero and Quintilian. He shows how biblicists deliberately transformed a heathen mode, and demonstrates that rhetoric served a pragmatic function among the church fathers. He also discusses the different responses of Renaissance translators, rhetors, polemicists, and humanists to the stylized medieval inheritance, paying particular attention to the issue of sacred plainness in preaching. The epilogue provides a convincing argument for the decline of the plain style in the late seventeenth century and describes how the almost vanished ideal of plainness was



transformed by Methodists, Quakers, Mennonites, Amish, and Hutterites.