Martin Camargo

Gebundenes Buch

A Renaissance of Rhetoric in Late Medieval Oxford

Treatises of the Oxford Rhetoricians, 1364-Ca. 1435

Beschreibung

This book documents an unprecedented effort to produce new treatises on rhetoric at Oxford in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Part 1 includes chapters on the origins, causes, and eventual decline of this "renaissance," as well as on the new textbooks and their authors, tradition and innovation in their rhetorical precepts, and the pedagogical contexts in which they were deployed. Part 2 consists of Latin editions and facing English translations of eight rhetorical treatises. Four of the Latin texts have never been printed before, and all eight are translated here for the first time.

Autor

Martin Camargo is Emeritus Professor of English, Classics, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has held previous appointments at the University of Alabama (1979-1980) and the University of Missouri (1980-2003). An award-winning teacher of undergraduate and graduate students, he also served as head of three different departments and as a dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The principal focus of Camargo's teaching and scholarship has been literature written in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. His research on vernacular poetry, especially works by Geoffrey Chaucer, and on medieval Latin rhetoric has received fellowship support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, All Souls College, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has published five books and more than sixty articles and has maintained an active research program since retiring in 2021.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PIMS
• Seitenzahl: 596
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1040g
• ISBN-13: 9780888442406
• ISBN-10: 0888442408
• Artikelnr.: 73539277