Definitions and Depictions of Rhetorical Practice in Medieval English "Fürstenspiegel."
- Author/Editor
- Sharp, Joseph Ethan Blaine.
- Title
- Definitions and Depictions of Rhetorical Practice in Medieval English "Fürstenspiegel."
- Published
- Sharp, Joseph Ethan Blaine. "Definitions and Depictions of Rhetorical Practice in Medieval English Fürstenspiegel." PhD. Dissertation. University of Louisville, 2022. Open access at https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/3849 (accessed January 28, 2023).
- Review
- From Sharp's abstract: "After establishing the relevance of the "Fürstenspiegel" as a rhetorical genre in Chapter One, the dissertation provides three cases studies on John of Salisbury, John Gower, and John Lydgate that demonstrate how the rhetorical theories communicated in their "Fürstenspiegel" were responsive to particular cultural moments and resonated with contemporary political practices. Chapter Two analyzes how John of Salisbury positions rhetorical knowledge as necessary for the development of higher-order learning in the individual and compares the interpretive and inventive practices that John advocates in the "Metalogicon" and "Policraticus" with emerging methodologies for determining the truth of testimony and contingent situations in contemporary English jurisprudence. Chapter Three explores how John Gower’s elevation of rhetoric to an epistemological category [especially in CA, Book VII, and VC Book I) establishes a political paradigm in which a sovereign’s rhetorical efficacy is measured against his habituation to virtue, a paradigm that is challenged by Richard II’s attempt to canonize Edward II. Finally, Chapter Four traces the development of rhetoric as a legitimated discipline within the king’s household and details how John Lydgate leverages the professionalization of rhetoric to create a political system in which rhetorical intervention is achieved through rhetorical stylistics. In Chapter Five, the dissertation concludes by explaining how these case studies affect the field of medieval rhetorical historiography." [MA. eJGN 42.2]
- Date
- 2022
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
Vox Claamantis
Style, Rhetoric, and Versification