Medieval Grammar And Rhetoric by Rita Copeland
Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475
This study traces the development and interdependence of grammatical and rhetorical instruction across late antiquity and the medieval period, showing how instructional texts, commentaries, and manuscript practices shaped ways of reading and composing. It argues that the “arts of language”—grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic—provided medieval readers with analytic and interpretive tools that structured genres, authorship, and authority, and that shifts in pedagogy and textual technologies transformed literary theory and practice. Drawing on close readings of commentaries, glosses, and school texts, the work demonstrates that what modern scholars separate into discrete disciplines were fluid, intertwined practices central to medieval intellectual and literary culture.
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