Author: Milner, Stephen J.
Title: Communication, Consensus and Conflict: Rhetorical Precepts, The ars Concionandi, and social Ordering in late Medieval Italy
Review/Collection: In: Virginia Cox and John Ward, The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition, Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume: 2
Place edition: Leiden
Editor: Brill
Year edition: 2006
Pages: 365–468
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: The aim of this chapter is to examine the place of public speaking in the tradition of medieval and Renaissance Ciceronianism in Italy. Given that the classical rhetorical tradition, and the works of Cicero in particular, were almost wholly orientated towards oratory understood as performance, this might appear a fairly straightforward task. Yet the Ciceronianism of the medieval ars dictaminis, the most studied of the medieval arenas of exploitation for Ciceronian rhetorical theory, was largely removed from the civic context of the law court, council chamber, and forum that must have been familiar to Cicero in late Republican Rome. Instead, classical rhetorical Ciceronianism as applied to the medieval cultural context was predominantly oriented towards the written rather than the spoken word, with the emphasis within dictaminal instruction placed upon learning the compositional skills of dispositio and elocutio rather than the performative parts of memoria, and pronuntiatio, and the more argumentative inventio [author].
Works:
Author initials: Milner 2006
Title: Communication, Consensus and Conflict: Rhetorical Precepts, The ars Concionandi, and social Ordering in late Medieval Italy
Review/Collection: In: Virginia Cox and John Ward, The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition, Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume: 2
Place edition: Leiden
Editor: Brill
Year edition: 2006
Pages: 365–468
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: The aim of this chapter is to examine the place of public speaking in the tradition of medieval and Renaissance Ciceronianism in Italy. Given that the classical rhetorical tradition, and the works of Cicero in particular, were almost wholly orientated towards oratory understood as performance, this might appear a fairly straightforward task. Yet the Ciceronianism of the medieval ars dictaminis, the most studied of the medieval arenas of exploitation for Ciceronian rhetorical theory, was largely removed from the civic context of the law court, council chamber, and forum that must have been familiar to Cicero in late Republican Rome. Instead, classical rhetorical Ciceronianism as applied to the medieval cultural context was predominantly oriented towards the written rather than the spoken word, with the emphasis within dictaminal instruction placed upon learning the compositional skills of dispositio and elocutio rather than the performative parts of memoria, and pronuntiatio, and the more argumentative inventio [author].
Works:
Author initials: Milner 2006
