Medieval rhetoric and poetic

About this eBook

Author

Baldwin, Charles Sears, 1867-1935

Title

Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400 : Interpreted from representative works

Original Publication

Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1928, pubdate 1959.

Credits

Tor Martin Kristiansen, Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Rhetoric, Medieval

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 76844

Release Date

September 8, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MEDIEVAL RHETORIC AND POETIC
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ABBREVIATIONS RECURRING IN THE NOTES
5. 5.CHAPTER I THE SOPHISTIC TREND IN ANCIENT RHETORIC — References and Abbreviations — A. The Two Historic Conceptions of Rhetoric — B. The Second Sophistic [10] — 1. Philostratus, The Lives of the Sophists [11] — 2. The Character of Sophistic — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.CHAPTER II [1] ST. AUGUSTINE ON PREACHING ( DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA , IV) — TABULAR VIEW OF ST. AUGUSTINE’S DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA IV — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER III THE LAST ROMAN SCHOOLS AND THE COMPENDS (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES) — References and Abbreviations — A. The Schools of Gaul — 1. Ausonius [2] — 2. Sidonius Apollinaris — 3. Textbooks — B. The Trivium in Compends of the Seven Liberal Arts — 1. Martianus Capella — 2. Cassiodorus — 3. Isidore — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER IV POETIC, OLD AND NEW (FIFTH TO SEVENTH CENTURIES) — References and Abbreviations — A. Claudian and Boethius — B. Prudentius, Sedulius, Fortunatus — C. The Earlier Latin Hymns [22] — 1. Iambic — 2. Trochaic — 3. Other Measures — 4. Poetic Conceptions — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER V THE CAROLINGIANS AND THE TENTH CENTURY — References and Abbreviations — A. The Trivium in the Greater Monasteries — B. Grammatica — 1. POETIC — 2. LATIN HYMNS — 3. NARRATIVE HEXAMETERS AND ELEGIACS — C. Dialectica — D. Rhetorica — E. The Poetic of Germanic Epic — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER VI RHETORIC AND LOGIC IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES — References and Abbreviations — A. The Trivium at Chartres, Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries — B. The Trivium in Hugh of St. Victor — C. The Metalogicus of John of Salisbury — DIGEST OF METALOGICUS — D. Thirteenth Century Surveys — 1. The Anticlaudianus of Alain de Lille — 2. The Speculum Doctrinale of Vincent of Beauvais — 3. St. Bonaventure de Reductione Artium ad Theologiam — 4. The Trésor of Brunetto Latini — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VII LATIN POETIC IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES — References and Abbreviations — A. Poetica included in Grammatica — B. Poetria — 1. Matthieu de Vendôme, Ars Versificatoria (before 1175) — 2. Geoffroi de Vinsauf, Poetria Nova (c. 1210) — 3. Évrard, Laborintus (c. 1213) — 4. Johannes de Garlandia, Poetria (probably before mid-Thirteenth Century). — 5. Common Traits — C. Hymns — 1. Progress of Rimed Stress Verse — 2. Variations in Trochaic Stanza — 3. Symbolism — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII DICTAMEN — References and Abbreviations — A. The Rhetoric of Dictamen — B. Digest of Candelabrum I-V [18] — Book I. Choice of Words, Rhythmical Composition of Sentences — Book II. Figures — Book III. Salutatio — Book IV. Exordium, Narratio, Petitio, Conclusio — Book V. Summary Review of the Preceding Books — C. Cursus — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER IX PREACHING — References and Abbreviations — A. Vernacular to the People, Latin to the Clergy — B. Collections — C. Manuals — D. Symbolism — E. Composition — 1. Imaginative Method — 2. Logical Method — F. Style — 1. Rhythm — 2. Balance and Rime — 3. Refrain — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.CHAPTER X POETIC ACHIEVEMENT IN VERNACULAR — A. Lyric and Epic — B. Experiment and Convention in Romance — 1. Romance in Latin and in Vernacular — 2. Walter Map and Marie — 3. Chrétien de Troyes — 4. Conventional Composition — C. The Poetic Composition of the Divina Commedia — D. The History of Medieval Verse Narrative in Chaucer — 1. Poetic Conventions in the Earlier Poems — 2. Poetic Innovation in Troilus and Criseyde — 3. Criticism of the Poetriæ — 4. The Poetic of the Canterbury Tales — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.SYNOPTIC INDEX
16. 16.GENERAL INDEX

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