Forensic Rhetoric and Humanist Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Eden
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Humanist Education ◽  
Roman Forum ◽  
Forensic Rhetoric ◽  
Writing Exercises

This chapter explores how the rhetoric of the Roman forum shaped humanist education in sixteenth-century England as demonstrated in the textbooks of Erasmus, Leonard Cox, Richard Rainolde, John Brinsley, and others. Through the influence of a small number of Roman rhetorical manuals widely read by these schoolmasters and their students, including the Ad Herennium, Cicero’s De inventione, and Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria, legal principles and procedures, such as status, circumstances, artificial and inartificial proofs, and topical argumentation, impact not only the full range of writing exercises derived from the progymnasmata, from the preliminary theme and epistle to the advanced declamation, but reading practices as well.

An Annotated Edition of Chaucer Belonging to Stephan Batman

The Library ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Conor Leahy
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Annotated Edition ◽  
Medieval Chronicles ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This article introduces a copy of The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer (1561) formerly belonging to the writer, cleric, limner, and book-collector Stephan Batman (c. 1542–1584). The volume is currently held at the Guildhall Library (SR 2.3.3), and contains Batman’s annotations and manicules throughout the text. It also features a 28-line poem in Batman’s hand, a short booklist of medieval chronicles, and five line drawings. The book thus offers a fresh insight into the reading practices of one of the most industrious English antiquaries of the sixteenth century, and sheds new light on Chaucer’s sixteenth-century reception.

The Rejection of Learning in Mid-Cinquecento Italy

1966 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 230-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul F. Grendler
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Mathematics History ◽  
Active Life ◽  
Pietro Bembo ◽  
Humanist Education ◽  
Renaissance Learning ◽  
Fourth Decade ◽  
The World

In the years 1535-1555 a group of Italian authors rejected much of Italian Renaissance learning. Humanists in the Quattrocento had wished to educate man for the active life. During the sixteenth century humanist education became a broad pattern of learning stressing grammar, rhetoric, logic, mathematics, history, and literature, based on both the Latin classics and vernacular models like Petrarch. Its purpose was the training of the young patrician to serve his family, city, or prince in the affairs of the world. But a group of critics mocked liberal studies, spurned the classical heritage, rejected authorities like Cicero and Pietro Bembo, ridiculed humanists, thought that history was widely misused, denied the utility of knowledge, and argued that man should withdraw into solitude. Nicolò Franco of Benevento (1515-1570), Lodovico Domenichi of Piacenza (1515-1564), Ortensio Lando of Milan (c. 1512-c. 1553), Giulio Landi of Piacenza (1500-1579), and Anton Francesco Doni of Florence (1513-1574) reached maturity in the fourth decade of the sixteenth century and expressed these critical themes in their many books published from 1533 to the early years of the 1550s.

The Commedia dell'arte: An Introduction

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Katritzky
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Early History ◽  
Precise Definition ◽  
Commedia Dell'arte ◽  
Street Theatre ◽  
Dramatic Performance ◽  
Stock Types ◽  
Definition Of

Although more has been written on the commedia dell'arte than on any other type of theatre, many fundamental questions remain unanswered, and opinions concerning its origins, early history, and definition are surprisingly divergent. It is evident that the term ‘commedia dell'arte’ would become virtually meaningless if it were stretched to include, without qualification, all manifestations of theatrical entertainment which feature characters representing, or deriving from, its stock types; or the full range of theatrical practises offered by the very versatile early comici d'arte, although all are of concern to commedia studies. The commedia dell'arte itself may be broadly defined as a type of professional dramatic performance associated with distinctive stock characters, that arose in mid-sixteenth-century Italy, whose evolving cultural derivatives have spread throughout Europe. Its stock types drew on a wide variety of sources, including mystery and mummers’ plays, carnival masks, street theatre and court entertainment; popular farces and erudite comedy; and have transcended the theatre to play key roles in music, dance, art and literature. The extreme complexity of its continuing interchanges with other cultural phenomena makes precise definition of the commedia dell'arte elusive, and the term itself also resists easy definition because it was coined only in mid-eighteenth-century Paris, two centuries after the type of theatre with which it is associated first came into being.

Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolás Kanellos
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Full Range ◽  
The United States ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
The U.S

Recovering the U.S. hispanic literary heritage is a program that works with an international board of scholars, librarians, and archivists to constitute and make accessible an archive of cultural productions by Hispanic or Latino peoples who have existed since the sixteenth century in the areas that eventually became part of the United States. Founded in 1992 with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and subsequently funded by many other organizations, the project brought together scholars who wanted to make accessible to any interested person, with any level of education, the full range of texts generated by Hispanic peoples and to reform the concept of American nationhood. Depending on available funds, the program underwrites scholarly research, creates virtual and paper archives, microfilms for preservation, digitizes for accessibility, publishes material in conventional and digital form, organizes conferences, and maintains communications with some five thousand associates. The program has found, accessioned, and made accessible tens of thousands of books and documents that were heretofore unknown. It has digitized more than 500,000 items, ranging from published books and newspapers to manuscripts of varying lengths from the first encounters between Hispanic and indigenous peoples in North America to broadsides and photographs from the twentieth century—in short, all the materials that a literate community generates over centuries.

APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF READERS AND READING IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN

2004 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 1041-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN JACKSON
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New Evidence

The history of reading can link intellectual and cultural developments with social or political change in the eighteenth century. Historians of the book increasingly argue that an understanding of historical reading practices is essential if we are to understand the impact of texts on individuals and on society as a whole: textual evidence alone is inadequate. Recent work on eighteenth-century readers has used sources including book trade records, correspondence, and diaries to reconstruct the reading lives of individuals and of groups of readers. Such sources reveal the great variety of reading material many eighteenth-century readers could access, and the diversity and sophistication of reading practices they often employed, in selecting between a range of available reading strategies. Thus, any one theoretical paradigm is unlikely to capture the full range of eighteenth-century reading experience. Instead, we can trace the evolution of particular reading cultures, including popular and literary reading cultures, the existence of cultures based around particular genres of print, such as newspapers, and reading as a part of social and conversational life. There is now a need for a new synthesis that combines the new evidence of reading practice with textual analysis to explain continuity and change across the century.

Humanism and Colonial Governance in the Venetian Ageaen: The Case of Giovanni Bembo

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Maglaque
Keyword(s):  
Reading Practices ◽  
Autobiographical Writing ◽  
Humanist Education ◽  
Textual Practices ◽  
Colonial Governance

In this article, I examine the autobiographical writing and reading practices of Giovanni Bembo, a colonial governor posted to Skopelos and Skiathos in the Aegean in 1525. During his term as rettore in the Aegean, Bembo’s scribe had an affair with his daughter and helped her to abort her ensuing pregnancy. Bembo then ordered the scribe to be publicly castrated. In the aftermath of this violent act, Bembo was blacklisted from any further governmental position in Venice. In his autobiographical letter, written ten years after the events on Skiathos, Bembo reflects on his role in the colonial Aegean, using textual practices that he learned in Venetian humanist schools during adolescence. I argue that in Bembo’s autobiographical writing and annotations, we can see the ways in which humanist education shaped the Venetian patrician colonial administrator’s experience and practice of governance in the Aegean.

Proof and Probability

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorna Hutson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Forensic Rhetoric

This chapter explores the assumption that literature’s imaginative reality for lawyers depends precisely on its lack of “reality” in the sense of legal efficacy or consequence. Turning to the example of English theatre, it argues that we should recognize as an innovative achievement the fact that late sixteenth-century dramatists began to produce plays that created their own self-contained imaginative worlds. This achievement depended on a poetic adaptation of techniques of legal or forensic rhetoric, which privileged the making known, through circumstances, of human motive, or causa. The chapter concludes by suggesting that Shakespeare’s plays, thus imagining times and spaces as forms of proof relating to human “cause” or motive, have enabled us to construe human inwardness in ways which have created new forms of cultural “reality.”

Presbyterian Confessions

2019 ◽  
pp. 228-239
Author(s):  
Donald K. McKim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Full Range ◽  
The United States ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Presbyterian Churches

Presbyterians have expressed the Reformed theological tradition’s emphasis on the need to confess Christian faith. Confessions of faith have been a hallmark of Presbyterian churches throughout the world and throughout their history. Some confessions have presented a full range of theological topics; others have focused on particular issues addressed from Reformed perspectives. Presbyterians have built on classic continental Reformed confessions composed during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. The Westminster Confession of Faith (1647), composed in part by Presbyterians during the English Civil War, has been one of the most influential and enduring confessions, especially in the United States, where it has been the doctrinal standard of many Presbyterian denominations. A Book of Confessions, including a number of classical and contemporary Reformed confessions, is the doctrinal standard of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. It includes the Confession of 1967 centered on the theme of reconciliation in Jesus Christ. Other important confessions from Presbyterian churches have emerged in Canada, the Republic of Korea, the Presbyterian-Reformed Church in Cuba, and other nations. New and ongoing confessions of faith by Presbyterians express the Reformed impulse—“I believe, therefore I confess.”

Vernacular Books and Domestic Devotion in Cinquecento Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-318
Author(s):  
Marco Faini
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Printing Press ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
Devotional Writings ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract From the fifteenth century onwards, devotional texts represented a prominent part of the output of the Italian printing press. Much of this production, which often represented a privileged way to access the biblical text, is still largely unexplored. My article will analyse a selection of devotional writings printed at the end of the fifteenth century and in the first three decades of the sixteenth century that were directed to a large audience of laymen and women of medium to low literacy. I will analyse how these texts entered the domestic devotional practices of Italian devotees, focussing especially on reading. I will take into account their suggestions about how, when, and by whom reading should be performed; what readings devotees were encouraged to pursue; how the ideal reader was shaped in the paratextual apparatuses; and, finally, what textual tools the readers were offered to perform their reading practices.

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