Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova Across Medieval and Renaissance Europe

by Marjorie Curry Woods

With an unusually broad scope encompassing how Europeans taught and learned reading and writing at all levels, Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe provides a synoptic picture of medieval and early modern instruction in rhetoric, poetics, and composition theory and practice. As Marjorie Curry Woods convincingly argues, the decision of Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200) to write his rhetorical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814211097
• ISBN13: 9780814211090
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"