The Medieval and Early Renaissance Study of Cicero’s de Inventione and the Rhetorica ad Herennium: Commentaries and Contexts

Author: Ward, John O.
Title: The Medieval and Early Renaissance Study of Cicero’s de Inventione and the Rhetorica ad Herennium: Commentaries and Contexts
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: 1–75
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Description: the history of Ciceronian rhetorical commentary in later medieval Europe may be broadly divided into two geographically differentiated phases: one, from around the mid-eleventh to the early thirteenth century, in which French influences were dominant; the other, from the mid-thirteenth century onwards, centred in Italy.
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Author initials: Ward 2006