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100	1		_aBaldwin, Charles Sears, _d1867-1935
245	1	0	_aMedieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-08
508			_aTor Martin Kristiansen, Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520			_a"Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400: Interpreted from representative works" by Charles Sears Baldwin is a scholarly study written in the early 20th century. It traces how medieval theories of composition—rhetoric and poetic—both reflected and shaped education and literature, reading them through key texts and practices. The volume follows the transmission from antiquity, the dominance of style in the schools, and the complementary roles of sermons, letters, hymnody, and verse narrative, culminating in the vernacular achievements of Dante and Chaucer. The opening of this study sets out its plan and stakes: to read medieval rhetoric and poetic historically and in tandem, showing how they descend from late Roman schooling, absorb St. Augustine’s reforming impulse for preaching, and become largely a lore of style in the hands of the medieval grammarian. It then begins with a concise genealogy of sophistic rhetoric, contrasting Plato’s suspicion with Aristotle’s broader, moral theory of rhetoric, and explaining how the loss of deliberative public speech pushed ancient practice toward display and panegyric. Baldwin sketches the “second sophistic” via Philostratus—its virtuosity, theme-based declamation, improvisation, theatrical delivery, decorative dilation (notably ecphrasis), and reliance on fixed patterns. He illustrates how school exercises (the progymnasmata of Hermogenes—fable, chria, encomium, comparison, characterization, ecphrasis, thesis, and more) crystallized habits that prized balance, archaism, clausular cadence, and vehemence over sustained argument. The section closes by implying that such empty technic required a new motive—ultimately supplied by Christian preaching—to restore rhetoric’s larger purpose. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cGloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1928
653			_aLiterature, Medieval -- History and criticism
653			_aPoetics -- History -- To 1500
653			_aRhetoric, Medieval
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76844
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