The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition.
Cox, Virginia.
The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (565 pages) - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition Series ; v.2 . - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition Series .
Intro -- The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- PART ONE: ORIGINS, DEFINITIONS, AND DIFFUSION -- Chapter 1 The Medieval and Early Renaissance Study of Cicero's De inventione and the Rhetorica ad Herennium: Commentaries and Contexts -- Appendix: Catena Glosses on the De inventione of Cicero and the Pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium from the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- Chapter 2 Reading Between the Lines: The Textual History and Manuscript Transmission of Cicero's Rhetorical Works -- Chapter 3 Ciceronian Rhetoric in Late Medieval Italy: The Latin and Vernacular Traditions -- Appendix: Ciceronian Rhetoric in the Vernacular in Italy, 1260-1500 -- PART TWO: INFLUENCES AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS: CONTEXTS FOR THE UTILIZATION OF THE CICERONIAN RHETORICAL JUVENILIA AND THEIR COMMENTARY TRADITION -- Chapter 4 Ciceronian Rhetoric and Ethics: Conduct Literature and 'Speaking Well' -- Chapter 5 Rhetoric and Dialectic -- Chapter 6 Ciceronian Rhetoric and the Law -- Chapter 7 Rhetorical memoria in Commentary and Practice -- Chapter 8 The Ciceronian Rhetorical Tradition and Medieval Literary Theory -- Chapter 9 Latin Composition Textbooks and Ad Herennium Glossing: The Missing Link? -- Appendices: -- 1. Ancient and Medieval Rhetorical Texts Discussed -- 2. 'Rhetorical Colors' Treated in the Works Discussed -- 3. Treatments of a Sample Figure (repetitio) Compared -- 4. Ancient Rhetorics Cited or Quoted in Tria sunt Ch. 12 (Worcester Cathedral, Chapter Library MS Q.79, fols 143v-50r) -- Chapter 10 Poetics, Narration, and Imitation: Rhetoric as ars aplicabilis -- Chapter 11 Medieval Thematic Preaching: A Ciceronian Second Coming -- Chapter 12 The Rhetorical Juvenilia of Cicero and the artes dictaminis. Chapter 13 Communication, Consensus, and Conflict: Rhetorical Precepts, the ars concionandi, and Social Ordering in Late Medieval Italy -- Appendix: Examples of zibaldoni Containing Sample Orations and Other Rhetorically Related Material -- Appendix: The Commentaries in Action -- 1. The Preface to Victorinus' De inventione Commentary -- 2. The Preface to the Ad Herennium Gloss by Alanus (of Lille?) from MS London British Library Harley 6324 -- 3. The Preface to the Ad Herennium Commentary by Guarino da Verona -- 4. The Doctrine of insinuatio, or the 'indirect opening' -- 5. The tertium genus narrationis -- 6. Attitudes towards Antiquity: The Gloss on the Lucius Saturninus Episode (Ad Herennium 1.12.21, the legal status of definition) -- 7. Attitudes towards Antiquity: the color demonstratio (elocutio) -- Bibliography of Primary Sources Cited -- Bibliography of Secondary Works and Editions -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Persons and Titles -- General Index -- Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition.
This volume examines the transmission and influence of Ciceronian rhetoric from late antiquity to the fifteenth century, examining the relationship between rhetoric and practices as diverse as law, dialectic, memory theory, poetics, and ethics. Includes an appendix of primary texts.
9789047404644
Electronic books.
PA6385.R44 2006
875.01
The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (565 pages) - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition Series ; v.2 . - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition Series .
Intro -- The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- PART ONE: ORIGINS, DEFINITIONS, AND DIFFUSION -- Chapter 1 The Medieval and Early Renaissance Study of Cicero's De inventione and the Rhetorica ad Herennium: Commentaries and Contexts -- Appendix: Catena Glosses on the De inventione of Cicero and the Pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium from the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- Chapter 2 Reading Between the Lines: The Textual History and Manuscript Transmission of Cicero's Rhetorical Works -- Chapter 3 Ciceronian Rhetoric in Late Medieval Italy: The Latin and Vernacular Traditions -- Appendix: Ciceronian Rhetoric in the Vernacular in Italy, 1260-1500 -- PART TWO: INFLUENCES AND INTERRELATIONSHIPS: CONTEXTS FOR THE UTILIZATION OF THE CICERONIAN RHETORICAL JUVENILIA AND THEIR COMMENTARY TRADITION -- Chapter 4 Ciceronian Rhetoric and Ethics: Conduct Literature and 'Speaking Well' -- Chapter 5 Rhetoric and Dialectic -- Chapter 6 Ciceronian Rhetoric and the Law -- Chapter 7 Rhetorical memoria in Commentary and Practice -- Chapter 8 The Ciceronian Rhetorical Tradition and Medieval Literary Theory -- Chapter 9 Latin Composition Textbooks and Ad Herennium Glossing: The Missing Link? -- Appendices: -- 1. Ancient and Medieval Rhetorical Texts Discussed -- 2. 'Rhetorical Colors' Treated in the Works Discussed -- 3. Treatments of a Sample Figure (repetitio) Compared -- 4. Ancient Rhetorics Cited or Quoted in Tria sunt Ch. 12 (Worcester Cathedral, Chapter Library MS Q.79, fols 143v-50r) -- Chapter 10 Poetics, Narration, and Imitation: Rhetoric as ars aplicabilis -- Chapter 11 Medieval Thematic Preaching: A Ciceronian Second Coming -- Chapter 12 The Rhetorical Juvenilia of Cicero and the artes dictaminis. Chapter 13 Communication, Consensus, and Conflict: Rhetorical Precepts, the ars concionandi, and Social Ordering in Late Medieval Italy -- Appendix: Examples of zibaldoni Containing Sample Orations and Other Rhetorically Related Material -- Appendix: The Commentaries in Action -- 1. The Preface to Victorinus' De inventione Commentary -- 2. The Preface to the Ad Herennium Gloss by Alanus (of Lille?) from MS London British Library Harley 6324 -- 3. The Preface to the Ad Herennium Commentary by Guarino da Verona -- 4. The Doctrine of insinuatio, or the 'indirect opening' -- 5. The tertium genus narrationis -- 6. Attitudes towards Antiquity: The Gloss on the Lucius Saturninus Episode (Ad Herennium 1.12.21, the legal status of definition) -- 7. Attitudes towards Antiquity: the color demonstratio (elocutio) -- Bibliography of Primary Sources Cited -- Bibliography of Secondary Works and Editions -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Persons and Titles -- General Index -- Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition.
This volume examines the transmission and influence of Ciceronian rhetoric from late antiquity to the fifteenth century, examining the relationship between rhetoric and practices as diverse as law, dialectic, memory theory, poetics, and ethics. Includes an appendix of primary texts.
9789047404644
Electronic books.
PA6385.R44 2006
875.01