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  • The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian

    by Michael Edwards, James J. Murphy ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century CE. After his retirement, he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in antiquity because it is both a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise. Quintilian's fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but also on the two collections of Declamations which were later ... Read more

    $141.29 USD

  • Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    by James J. Murphy ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The essays in this volume deal with the history of rhetoric and education for the thousand years from the early Middle Ages to the European Renaissance. They represent the author's pioneering efforts over four decades to piece together a kind of mosaic which will provide elements necessary to construct a history of that thousand years of language activity. Some essays deal with individual writers ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Demosthenes' "On the Crown"

    Rhetorical Perspectives

    by Lois Peters Agnew, David Mirhady, Richard A Katula, Jeffrey Walker, Richard Leo Enos ...
    Series series Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address
    Demosthenes’ speech On the Crown (330 B.C.E.), in which the master orator spectacularly defended his public career, has long been recognized as a masterpiece. The speech has been in continuous circulation from Demosthenes’ lifetime to the present day, and multiple generations have acclaimed it as the greatest speech ever written. In addition to a clear and accessible translation, *Demosthenes’** ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric

    by James J. Murphy, Richard A. Katula, Michael Hoppmann ...
    Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history of rhetoric. Offering vivid examples of each classical rhetor, rhetorical period, and source text, students are led to understand rhetoric's role ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • A Short History of Writing Instruction

    From Ancient Greece to The Modern United States

    Edited by James J. Murphy, Chris Thaiss ...
    This newly revised Thirtieth Anniversary edition provides a robust scholarly introduction to the history of writing instruction in the West from Ancient Greece to the present-day United States.It preserves the legacy of writing instruction from antiquity to contemporary times with a unique focus on the material, educational, and institutional context of the Western rhetorical tradition. Its ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing

    Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten of the "Institutio oratoria"

    Edited by James J. Murphy, Hugh C Wiese ...
    Series series Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address
    Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing, edited by James J. Murphy and Cleve Wiese, offers scholars and students insights into the pedagogies of Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (ca. 35–ca. 95 CE), one of Rome’s most famous teachers of rhetoric. Providing translations of three key sections from Quintilian’s important and influential Institutio oratoria (Education of the Orator), this volume ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    by Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Suicide in the Middle Ages, Volume 2

    by Alexander Murray ...
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    $56.69 USD

  • The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus

    by Pamela Gordon ...
    The school of Greek philosopher Epicurus, which became known as the Garden, famously put great stock in happiness and pleasure. As a philosophical community, and a way of seeing the world, Epicureanism had a centuries-long life in Athens and Rome, as well as across the Mediterranean.The Invention and Gendering of Epicurusstudies how the Garden's outlook on pleasure captured Greek and Roman ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

    by Walter Ullmann ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Walter Ullmann on Medieval Political Theory
    In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings. It is neither a constitutional nor a political history, but a historical definition and explanation of the main features which characterised the three kinds of government which can be discerned in the Middle Ages – government by the Pope, the King, the People. The author ... Read more

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  • Epicurean Tradition

    by Howard Jones ...
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    $73.99 USD