Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

by Copeland, Rita

• ISBN13: 9780198904878
• ISBN10: 0198904878
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-01-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Rita Copeland, Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, and Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

Rita Copeland is Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature and Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. She is author or editor of eight books and is a General Editor of the five-volume Cambridge History of Rhetoric. She has received grants and fellowships, including the Guggenheim, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, and American Philosophical Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Before the Middle Ages: Emotion from Invention to Style
2. Christian and Literary Rhetorics of the Early Middle Ages: Emotion as the Property of Style
3. Emotion in the Rhetorical Arts and Literary Culture c. 1070-c.1400
4. Aristotle's Rhetoric in the Latin West: The Fortunes of the Path?
5. De regimine principum: Emotion, Persuasion, and Political Thought
6. Political Poetics and the Aristotelian Turn: Dante, Chaucer, and Hoccleve
7. Preaching, Emotion, and the Aristotelian Turn
Epilogue: Mixed Rhetorics