Title Emotion and the history of rhetoric in the Middle Ages / Rita Copeland

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture. Summary "Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring in what has largely been a blank space between about 600 CE and the cusp of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other periods, constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in emotionally persuasive writing. Medieval rhetorical thought on emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations of practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated emotional persuasion as a property of surface stylistic effect, which can be seen in the medieval rhetorics of poetry and prose, and in literary production. But the impact of Aristotelian rhetoric, which reached the Latin West in the thirteenth century, gave emotional persuasion a core role in reasoning, incorporating it into the key device of proof, the enthymeme. In Aristotle, medieval teachers and writers found a new rhetorical language to explain the social and psychological factors that affect an audience. With Aristotelian rhetoric, the emotions became political. The impact of Aristotle's rhetorical approach to emotions was to be felt in medieval political treatises, in poetry, and in preaching"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on July 21, 2022) Subject Rhetoric, Medieval -- History and criticism Emotions in literature. Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Latin language -- History Latin literature -- History and criticism Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism Rhetoric, Medieval Emotions in literature Latin language Latin literature Latin literature, Medieval and modern Literature, Medieval Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192659743 019265974X

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