The rhetoric of Cicero in its medieval and early Renaissance commentary tradition / / edited by Virginia Cox, John O. Ward

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xvii, 545 p
• Disciplina: 875/.01
• Soggetto topico: Rhetoric, Ancient; Rhetoric, Medieval
• Altri autori: CoxVirginia WardJohn O. <1940->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-520) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Origins, definitions, and diffusion -- pt. 2. Influences and interrelationships : contexts for the utilization of the Ciceronian rhetorical juvenilia and their commentary tradition.
• Sommario/riassunto: This multi-authored volume, by an authoritative team of international scholars, examines the transmission of Ciceronian rhetoric in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, concentrating on the fortunes, in particular, of the two dominant classical rhetorical textbooks of the time, Cicero’s early De inventione , and the contemporary ‘pseudo-Ciceronian’ Rhetorica ad Herennium . The volume is unprecedented in range and depth as a presentation of the place of classical rhetoric in medieval culture, and will serve to revise views of a period seen until recently as largely indifferent to the values of ‘eloquence’. The main body of the volume is composed of a series of ground-breaking studies of the relationship between Ciceronian rhetoric and a wide range of intellectual traditions and cultural practices, including dialectic, law, conduct theory, memory, poetics and practical composition teaching, preaching, ars dictaminis, and political oratory. Also included are important contextualizing essays on the commentary tradition of the Ciceronian juvenilia, on the textual history and manuscript transmission of Cicero’s rhetorical works, and on the Latin and vernacular traditions of Ciceronian rhetoric in Italy. The volume concludes with an annotated appendix of illustrative texts containing extracts from the commentary tradition on Ciceronian rhetoric, most of which have not been previously available in printing.
• Titolo autorizzato: The rhetoric of Cicero in its medieval and early Renaissance commentary tradition
• ISBN: 1-281-38437-2; 9786611384371; 90-474-0464-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910145734703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; ; v. 2.