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Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, EPUB eBook

Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages EPUB

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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-lengthstudy of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring that rhetorical history 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 onemotion 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.

InAristotle, 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 politicaltreatises, in poetry, and in preaching.

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