Overview

In the Middle Ages, liturgies, books, song, architecture and poetry were performed as collaborative activities in which performers and audience together realized their work anew. In this book, essays by leading scholars analyse how the medieval arts invited and delighted in collaborative performances designed to persuade. The essays cast fresh light on subjects ranging from pilgrim processions within Chartres Cathedral, to polyphonic song, and the 'rhetoric of silence' perfected by the Cistercians. Rhetoric is defined broadly in this book to encompass its relationship to its sister arts of music, architecture, and painting, all of which use materials and media in addition to words, sometimes altogether without words. Contributors have concentrated on those aspects of formal rhetoric that are performative in nature, the sound, gesture and facial expressions of persuasive speech in action. Delivery (performance) is shown to be at the heart of rhetoric, that aspect of it which is indeed beyond words.

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Author:   Mary Carruthers (Professor and Fellow, New York University)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   78
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781107647770

ISBN 10:   1107647770
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   05 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editor's introduction Mary Carruthers; 1. 'Working by words alone': the architect, scholasticism and rhetoric in thirteenth-century France Paul Binski; 2. Grammar and rhetoric in Late Medieval polyphony: modern metaphor or old simile? Margaret Bent; 3. Nature's forge and mechanical production: writing, reading, and performing song Elizabeth Eva Leach; 4. Rhetorical strategies in the pictorial imagery of fourteenth century manuscripts: the case of the Bohun Psalters Lucy Freeman Sandler; 5. Do actions speak louder than words? The scope and role of pronuntiatio in the Latin rhetorical tradition, with special reference to the Cistercians Jan M. Ziolkowski; 6. Vultus Adest (the face helps): performance, expressivity, and interiority Monika Otter; 7. Special delivery: were medieval letter writers trained in performance? Martin Camargo; 8. The concept of ductus, or, journeying through a work of art Mary Carruthers; 9. Ductus and memoria: Chartres Cathedral and the workings of rhetoric Paul Crossley; 10. Ductus figuratus et subtilis: rhetorical interventions for women in two twelfth-century liturgies William T. Flynn; 11. Terribilis est locus iste: the Pantheon in 609 Susan Rankin.

Reviews

'Mary Carruthers and the contributors to this volume have produced an extraordinary collection of essays, rich and complex with thematic intercon- nections andmany avenues for further exploration ... readers will find Carruthers' collection a remarkable resource not only for historical and textual studies, but also for insights into medieval culture, worship, and performance through the art of rhetoric.' Elza C. Tiner, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

'Mary Carruthers and the contributors to this volume have produced an extraordinary collection of essays, rich and complex with thematic intercon- nections andmany avenues for further exploration ... readers will find Carruthers' collection a remarkable resource not only for historical and textual studies, but also for insights into medieval culture, worship, and performance through the art of rhetoric.' Elza C. Tiner, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric Mary Carruthers and the contributors to this volume have produced an extraordinary collection of essays, rich and complex with thematic intercon- nections andmany avenues for further exploration ... readers will find Carruthers' collection a remarkable resource not only for historical and textual studies, but also for insights into medieval culture, worship, and performance through the art of rhetoric. Elza C. Tiner, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

Author Information

Mary Carruthers is Remarque Professor of Literature, New York University, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

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