Latin grammar and rhetoric : from classical theory to medieval practice /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.
Description:xi, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4815915
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Other authors / contributors:Lanham, Carol Dana.
ISBN:0826457088
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Latin Orthopraxes
  • 2. Tales Out of School: Grammatical Culture in Fulgentius the Mythographer
  • 3. After the Schools: Grammar and Rhetoric in Cassiodorus
  • 4. Grammar and Exegesis: Bede's Liber de schematibus et tropis
  • 5. De schematibus et tropis in Italian Garb: A Study of Bamberg Msc. Class. 43
  • 6. The Hermeneumata pseudodositheana, Latin Oral Fluency, and the Social Function of the Cambro-Latin Dialogues Called De raris fabulis
  • 7. The Golden Line: Ancient and Medieval Lists of Special Hexameters and Modern Scholarship
  • 8. Medieval Teaching Texts on Syllable Quantities and the Innovations from the School of Alberic of Monte Cassino
  • 9. Narrative and an Absolutely Fabulous Commentary on Ovid's Heroides
  • 10. Late Antique Rhetoric, Early Monasticism, and the Revival of School Rhetoric
  • 11. Ancient Sophistic and Medieval Rhetoric
  • 12. Weeping for Dido: Epilogue on a Premodern Rhetorical Exercise in the Postmodern Classroom