PIMSPontifical Institute
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Mediaeval Studies

March 2025

A Renaissance of Rhetoric in Late Medieval Oxford: Treatises of the Oxford Rhetoricians, 1364–ca. 1435

Studies and Texts 240; Toronto Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Rhetoric 2 • xii, 584 pp. • ISBN 978-0-88844-240-6 • Cloth • $150

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This book documents an unprecedented effort to produce new treatises on rhetoric at Oxford that began in the second half of the fourteenth century and continued through the first half of the fifteenth century.

March 2020

Translation and the Rediscovery of Rhetoric

Studies and Texts 217; Toronto Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Rhetoric 1 • 2020 • xii, 444 pp. • ISBN 978-0-88844-217-8 • Cloth • $95

Translation and the Rediscovery of Rhetoric presents a diachronic case study of how translation is the means by which rhetoric, as the art of reasoning, becomes a part of a lineage of – and a resource for – an ethics of civic discourse. It shows how translation (as practice and as theory, via the medieval topos of translatio as the transfer of knowledge) serves as the vehicle for the transfer of rhetoric as an art of argumentation and persuasion from classical Greece and Rome to modern Paris and Brussels by way of medieval France and Italy.