Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

by Rita Copeland

Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West, from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages, represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192845128
• ISBN13: 9780192845122
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"