Historical Rhetorics/Rhetoric's Medieval Resurgence

Chapter Eight: Rhetoric's Medieval Resurgence (?)

The title for this week isn't a statement it is a question. Do what extent does Augustine promote rhetoric? The answer to this question, I believe, will be imbricated in the Q Question, to whether rhetoric refers to a reality and transmits Truths already in existence or instantiates reality and transforms our experience of it.

St. Augustine. On Christian Teaching. Trans. and Intro R.P.H. Green. New York, NY: Oxford UP, 1999.

Relevant Secondary Sources

• Anderson, Floyd D. "De Doctrina Christiana 2.18.28: The Convergence of Athens and Jerusalem." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 15.3-4 (1985): 102-105.
• Camper, K. M. (2013). The stylistic virtues of clarity and obscurity in Augustine of Hippo's De doctrina christiana. Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 16(1), 58-81. doi: 10.1080/15362426.2013.764832
• Erickson, Keith V. "The Significance of Doctrina in Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 15.3-4 (1985): 105-108.
• Friedman, Alice T. "The Influence of Humanism on the Education of Girls and Boys in Tudor England." History of Education Quarterly 25.1-2 (1985): 57-70.
• Fulkerson, Gerald. "Augustine's Attitude Toward Rhetoric in 'De Doctrina Christiana': the Significance of 2.37.55." Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 15.3/4 (1985): 108-111.]]
• Johnson, W. R. “Isocrates Flowering: The Rhetoric of Augustine.” Philosophy & Rhetoric (1976): 217–31.
• King, Andrew A. "St. Augustine's Doctrine of Participation As a Metaphysic of Persuasion." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 15.3-4 (1985):112-116.
• Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony. "St. Augustine's Rhetoric of Silence." Journal of the History of Ideas 23 (1962): 175–96.
• Nauert, Charles G., Jr. "The Clash of Humanists and Scholastics: An Approach to Pre-Reformation Controversies." The Sixteenth Century Journal 4.1 (1973): 1-18.
• Schaeffer, John D. “The Dialectic of Orality and Literacy: The Case of Book 4 of Augustine’s De doctrina christiana.” PMLA 111.5 (October 1996): 1133-1145.
• Seigel, JE. ""Civic Humanism" or Ciceronian Rhetoric? The Culture of Petrarch and Bruni." Past and Present 34 (1966): 3-48.
• Stuever, Nancy. "Petrarch's Invective contra medicum: An Early Confrontation of Rhetoric and Medicine." MLN 108.4 (1993) 659-679.
• Tell, David. "Beyond Mnemotechnics: Confession and Memory in Augustine." Philosophy & Rhetoric 39.3 (2006): 233-253.
• Vickers, Brian. "The Recovery of Rhetoric: Petrarch, Eramsus, Perelman." History of the Human Sciences 3.3 (1990): 415-441.
• Wertheimer, Molly, ed. “Panel on the Most Significant Passage in Saint Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana: Five Nominations.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 15.3–4 (1985): 101–18.
• Wiethoff, William E. "The Merits of De Doctrina Christiana." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 15.3-4 (1985): 116-119.

Professors Kristine Johnson, Kilian McCurrie, and Jeff Ringer have compiled a bibliography dedicated to "The History of Rhetoric and Christian Tradition" [.doc]