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HERREN Latin Letters in Early Christian Ireland MARIO ESPOSITO Irish Books and Learning in Medieval Europe VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES Essays on Medieval Rhetoric Martin Camargo Martin Camargo Essays on Medieval Rhetoric First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OXI4 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint o/the Taylor & Francis Group, an iriforma business This edition © 2012 by Martin Camargo Martin Camargo has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Camargo, Martin. Essays on medieval rhetoric. - (Variorum collected studies series; CSI006) I. Rhetoric, Medieval. I. Title II. Series 808' .00902--dc23 ISBN 9781409442196 (hbk) Library of Congress Control Number: 2012930885 VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES CS1006 CONTENTS Introduction VB Acknowledgements x A. THEORY AND PRACTICE I Defining medieval rhetoric 21-34 Rhetoric and Renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540: Essays in Honour ofJ ohn O. Ward, eds c.J. Mews, c.J. Nederman, and R.M Thomson. Turnhout: Brepols, 2003 II "Non solum sibi sed aliis etiam": Neoplatonism and rhetoric in Saint Augustine's De doctrina christiana 393--408 Rhetorica 16, 1998 III Where's the brief? The ars dictaminis and reading/writing between the lines 1-17 Disputatio 1,1996 IV The varieties of prose dictamen as defined by the dictatores 61-73 Vichiana, ser. 3, 1 (Proceedings oft he International Conference on Rhetoric, Camigliatello Silano, Italy, 11-13 September 1989. Naples: Loffredo Editore, 1991,for 1990 B.PEDAGOGY V The pedagogy of the dictatores 65-94 Papers on Rhetoric v.. Atti del Convegno Internazionale "Dictamen, Poetria and Cicero: Coherence and Diversification," Bologna, 10-11 May 2002, ed. L.C. Montefusco. Rome: Herder, 2003 VI "Si dictare velis": versified artes dictandi and late medieval writing pedagogy 265-288 Rhetorica 14, 1996 vi CONTENTS VII Betweeen grammar and rhetoric: composition teaching at Oxford and Bologna in the late Middle Ages 83-94 Rhetoric and Pedagogy: Its History, Philosophy, and Practice: Essays in Honor ofJ ames J. Murphy, eds WB. Horner and M Leff. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1995 VIII Beyond the Libri Catoniani: models of Latin prose style at Oxford University ca. 1400 165-187 Mediaeval Studies 56, 1994 C. TEXTS AND TRANSMISSION IX Tria sunt: the long and the short of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi 935-955 Speculum 74, 1999 X A twelfth-century treatise on dictamen and metaphor 161-213 Traditio 47, 1992 XI Toward a comprehensive art of written discourse: Geoffrey ofVinsauf and the ars dictaminis 167-194 Rhetorica 6, 1988 XII The Libellus de arte dictandi rhetorice attributed to Peter of Blois 16-41 Speculum 59, 1984 XIII The English manuscripts of Bernard ofMeung's Flores dictaminum 197-219 Viator 12,1981 Addenda 1-3 Index of manuscripts 1-3 General index 1-9 This volume contains x + 324 pages INTRODUCTION Originally published over a span oft wenty-three years (1981-2003), the thirteen essays collected here cover topics in medieval rhetoric from its origins in late antiquity (II) through the fifteenth century (V-VIII), when the developments that came to be known as Renaissance Humanism already had been under way in parts of Europe for more than a century. Most ofthe essays are concerned in one way or another with the teaching of prose composition in Latin, especially the rhetorical art ofletter writing known as the ars dictaminis. Many of them focus on specific textbooks that were used for such instruction, in particular those composed or widely used in England from the twelfth century through the end of the Middle Ages. Rhetorical treatises and pedagogical practices from France, Italy, and other regions of Europe also figure prominently, often by being placed in relation to their English counterparts. In its broadest conception, the project that unites all of these studies is to identify and describe what is distinctive about medieval rhetoric by specifying its position within a continuous disciplinary history rooted in classical rhetoric (I). Because so many of the medieval texts have yet to be printed, a major focus of my work has been the study of original manuscript materials. The five essays in section C are concerned primarily with the transmission, contents, and intertextual relationships of four previously unprinted treatises that influenced the teaching of prose composition, especially letter writing, in medieval England. An additional four essays make substantial use of manuscript materials in analyzing competing systems of genre terminology (IV), documenting characteristic teaching methods (V and VI), and reconstructing a teaching anthology employed in late-medieval Oxford schools (VIII). The fuller picture that emerges through new evidence from the manuscripts demonstrates the importance of considering not only evolution over time but also variation across space when writing the history of rhetoric in the Middle Ages. One essay takes regional differences in pedagogy as its subject (VII), and similar contrasts are drawn on a smaller scale in several of the others. An especially important difference between rhetorical education in England and in Italy is the curricular status of the ars dictaminis. Italians wrote the earliest and the most influential treatises on the subject, and already by the early twelfth century Bologna was recognized internationally as the leading center for its study. By contrast, the few arts of letter writing composed in
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