Rhetoric and Renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540: Essays in Honour of John O. Ward

by Mews, Constant J.; Nederman, Cary J.; Thomson, Rodney M.; Ward, John O.

• ISBN13: 9782503513409
• ISBN10: 2503513409
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-01
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

The essays in this volume, presented in honor of John O. Ward, explore the role of rhetoric in promoting reform and renewal in the Latin West from Peter Abelard (1079-1142) to Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540). Ward, who has taught for many years at the University of Sydney, has been an influential and creative force in medieval and Renaissance studies both in Australia and internationally. This volume opens with a personal memoir and bibliography of Ward's publications, as well as an overview of the study of medieval rhetoric. The first of the three sections, "Abelard and Rhetoric," relates Abelard's rhetoric to his logic, his theology, and his relationship to Heloise. A second section, "Voices of Reform," considers various writers (William of Malmesbury, John of Salisbury, Richard FitzNigel, and William of Ockham) who bring rhetorical techniques to bear upon analysis of social conditions. A third section, "Rhetoric in Transition," deals with the evolution of rhetorical theory between the late fourteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Exordium
John O. Ward: A Personal Memoir	3	(6)
RODNEY M. THOMSON
A Bibliography of John O. Ward	9	(12)
RODNEY M. THOMSON AND CONSTANT J. MEWS
Defining Medieval Rhetoric	21	(16)
MARTIN CAMARGO
I. Abelard and Rhetoric
Peter Abelard on Dialectic, Rhetoric, and the Principles of Argument	37	(18)
CONSTANT J. MEWS
Abelard on Rhetoric	55	(26)
KARIN MARGARETA FREDBORG
Literary Aesthetics in the Latin Middle Ages: The Rhetorical Theology of Peter Abelard	81	(18)
PETER VON MOOS
Eloguencie vultutu depingere: Eloquence and Dictamen in the Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard	99	(16)
JUANITA FEROS RUPS
II. Voices of Reform
Satire, Irony, and Humour in William of Malmesbury	115	(14)
RODNEY M. THOMSON
The Language of William of Malmesbury	129	(20)
MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM
The Origins of 'Policy': Fiscal Administration and Economic Principles in Later Twelfth-Century England	149	(20)
CARY J. NEDERMAN
William of Ockham and the Lawyers Revisited	169	(16)
JOHN SCOTT
III. Rhetoric in Transition
Wyclifftte Ciceronianism? The General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible and Augustine's De doctrina Christiana	185	(16)
RITA COPELAND
Ciceronian Rhetorical Theory in the Volgare: A Fourteenth-Century Text and its Fifteenth-Century Readers	201	(26)
VIRGINIA COX
Rhetoric in the Fifteenth Century: From Manuscript to Print	227	(16)
JAMES J. MURPHY
Political Rhetoric and Rhetorical Politics in Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540)	243	(16)
NANCY S. STRUEVER
Contributors	259	(4)
Index	263	(6)
Tabula Gratulatoria	269