Theory and Practice of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medieval-Renaissance Faculty Workshop, Univ. of Louisville

Organizer Name

Joseph Turner

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Louisville

Presider Name

Joseph Turner

Paper Title 1

Incarnational Poetics and Insular Rhetoric

Presenter 1 Name

Tiffany Beechy

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Colorado-Boulder

Paper Title 2

Dante and Rhetoric of Vulgar Love: Fostering "the Habit of Knowledge" in the Vita Nouva, the Convivio, and Beyond

Presenter 2 Name

Jim Miranda

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Colorado-Boulder

Paper Title 3

Epistolary Mediation in the Ars dictaminis and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women

Presenter 3 Name

Elise Broaddus

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Missouri-Columbia

Start Date

14-5-2016 10:00 AM

Session Location

Valley III Stinson Lounge

Description

This session will explore important topics in medieval rhetoric and poetics, from Augustine's influence on Old English poetry, Dante's vernacular eloquence, and the ars dictaminis and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women.

Joseph Turner