The Evangelical Rhetoric Of Ramon Llull

Author : Mark D. Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195358209

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The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull by Mark D. Johnston Pdf

Ramon Llull (1232-1316), born on Majorca, was one of the most remarkable lay intellectuals of the thirteenth century. He devoted much of his life to promoting missions among unbelievers, the reform of Western Christian society, and personal spiritual perfection. He wrote over 200 philosophical and theological works in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic. Many of these expound on his "Great Universal Art of Finding Truth," an idiosyncratic dialectical system that he thought capable of proving Catholic beliefs to non-believers. This study offers the first full-length analysis of his theories about rhetoric and preaching, which were central to his evangelizing activities. It explains how Llull attempted to synthesize commonplace advice about courtly speech and techniques of popular sermons into a single program for secular and sacred eloquence that would necessarily promote love of God and neighbor. Llull's work is a remarkable testimony to the diffusion of clerical culture among educated lay-people of his era, and to their enthusiasm for applying that knowledge in pursuit of learning and piety. This book should find a place on the shelf of every scholar of medieval history, religion, and rhetoric.

Author : Mark David Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Learning and scholarship
ISBN : 0197739059

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The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull by Mark David Johnston Pdf

Author : Mark D. Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000149159

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Ramon Llull's New Rhetoric by Mark D. Johnston Pdf

Modern histories of medieval culture often assert without qualification that the oral exercise of public eloquence during the European Middle Ages was limited to preaching by the clergy. The classical art of rhetoric supposedly survived only as a written subject for study in the schools. During the past thirty years, however, knowledge of medieval rhetorical theory and practice has grown tremendously. Historians and philologians have devoted particular attention to the relationship between oral and written communication in medieval Europe. Their investigations are beginning to suggest -- not surprisingly -- that interest in eloquence was not confined to the schools or clergy. Secular officials arguing in princely courts or town halls, and laypeople seeking to develop their learning or piety also cultivated an interest in rhetoric. Given the paucity of testimony available, the New Rhetoric of the Mallorcan lay theologian and philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316) offers an exceptional witness to the non-academic and non-clerical concern for eloquence. His proposals for new Christian arts of communication are among the best evidence available for assessing the diffusion of rhetorical doctrines from the cloisters and schools into the courts, town halls, and private chapels of Western Europe around 1300. Growing interest in Llull's work and in medieval rhetoric have combined to produce this first published edition. The first part on order shows how Llull's entire program attempts to correlate ethical, metaphysical, and linguistic categories into a single system of Anselmian "rightness." The next section on beauty could almost form a complete art of preaching in itself, thanks to the brief compilations of sermon material that it includes. The broad range of discursive elements and techniques in which Llull seeks verbal beauty makes this section very eclectic in scope. Part three on knowledge attempts to explain the diffusion of right linguistic and rhetorical doctrine almost exclusively through the Divine Dignities and other categories of the Great Art. The final section on love consists of ten proverbs regarding loving speech, each explicated with an appropriate exemplum.

Author : Numa Gomez
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666744972

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The Crusade of Ramon Llull by Numa Gomez Pdf

A thirteenth-century priest in the Iberian Peninsula reaches out to Muslims and Jews in order to convert them to Christianity. This was a time of great conflict between the Abrahamic faiths, so any communication between adherents was usually difficult and sometimes hostile. Ramon Llull believed this theological gap could be overcome through logic and Scripture.

Author : Rita Copeland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192659750

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Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages by Rita Copeland Pdf

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 first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring that rhetorical history between about 600 CE and the cusp of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other periods, constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in emotionally persuasive writing. Medieval rhetorical thought on emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations of practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated emotional persuasion as a property of surface stylistic effect, which can be seen in the medieval rhetorics of poetry and prose, and in literary production. But the impact of Aristotelian rhetoric, which reached the Latin West in the thirteenth century, gave emotional persuasion a core role in reasoning, incorporating it into the key device of proof, the enthymeme. In Aristotle, medieval teachers and writers found a new rhetorical language to explain the social and psychological factors that affect an audience. With Aristotelian rhetoric, the emotions became political. The impact of Aristotle's rhetorical approach to emotions was to be felt in medieval political treatises, in poetry, and in preaching.

Author : Alejandro Coroleu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527500594

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Brief Forms in Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic Literature by Alejandro Coroleu Pdf

The studies gathered in this volume engage in different ways with the ideas of André Jolles (1874–1946), whose Einfache Formen (“Simple Forms”) was first published in 1930. Trained as an anthropologist, Jolles argued that these “simple” forms – Legende (legend), Sage (saga), Mythe (myth), Rätsel (riddle), Spruch (proverb), Kasus (case), Memorabile (memorable action), Märchen (folk or fairy tale) and Witz (joke or witticism) – which had circulated at a very early stage of human culture underlay the more sophisticated genres of literature. Unlike epic or tragedy, many of the simple forms are not theorised in classical rhetoric. The essays presented here focus on their reception in Hispanic culture from the Middle Ages to circa 1650. As such, the book will be of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern Spanish, Catalan and Latin literature. It will also appeal to historians of Humanism as well as scholars working on classical and Renaissance literary theory.

Author : Ralph Bauer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813942551

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The Alchemy of Conquest by Ralph Bauer Pdf

The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the Spanish, English, and French literatures about the Americas during the early modern period. As sailors, conquerors, travelers, and missionaries were exploring "new worlds," and claiming ownership of them, early modern men of science redefined what it means to "discover" something. Bauer explores the role that the verbal, conceptual, and visual language of alchemy played in the literature of the discovery of the Americas and in the rise of an early modern paradigm of discovery in both science and international law. The book traces the intellectual and spiritual legacies of late medieval alchemists such as Roger Bacon, Arnald of Villanova, and Ramon Llull in the early modern literature of the conquest of America in texts written by authors such as Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, José de Acosta, Nicolás Monardes, Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, Francis Bacon, and Alexander von Humboldt.

Author : Roberto J. González-Casanovas
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015037694968

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The Apostolic Hero and Community in Ramon Llull's Blanquerna by Roberto J. González-Casanovas Pdf

This study examines a masterpiece of medieval religious literature, Blanquerna (1283), written in Catalan by Ramon Llull (1232-1316), Doctor Illuminatus and Apostle to Islam, better known for his theological systems and missionary works. Blanquerna is a popular utopia about reconverting Christians, reforming Rome and all Christendom, and evangelizing infidels and pagans: it shows Blanquerna's spiritual journey as he reforms monastery and countryside, cathedral and city, papacy and Church, and then writes a contemplative guide and mystical allegory. This study applies critical theories of historicism, reception, genre, and rhetoric to a detailed analysis of Blanquerna, as fictional hagiography and apostolic utopia, so as to examine cultural contexts, religious narrative, and exemplary textuality. It relates the novel to Llull's autobiography, literary works, and missionary arts; considers parallels in popular preaching, didactic works and reform movements; and compares exemplary typology and narratology in Blanquerna and in the Castilian version of Barlaam.

Author : Carlos Carrete Parrondo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Jewish learning and scholarship
ISBN : UOM:39015057613963

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Encuentros & Desencuentros by Carlos Carrete Parrondo Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : English language
ISBN : NWU:35556030339253

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The Medieval Translator by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rosalynn Voaden
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060888016

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The Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages by Rosalynn Voaden Pdf

The interest of the writers of these essays in the intricacies and implications of translation in the Middle Ages, or of the translation of medieval texts in te modern period, has resulted in a diverse and intellectually stimulating volume. The papers in this volume, written in either English, French, or Spanish, approach translation from a wide variety of perspectives and offer a range of interpretations of the concept of translation. The volume contains essays ranging in time from the Anglo Saxon period to the present, and in topic from medieval recipe books to arguments in favour of women administering the sacrament. Languages studied include non-European languages as well as Latin and numerous European vernaculars as both source and target languages. As any translator or student of translation quickly becomes aware, it is impossible to divorce language from culture. All the contributors to this volume struggle with the complexities of translation as a cultural act, even when the focus would seem to be specifically linguistic. It is these complexities which lend the study of the theory and practice of translation in the Middle Ages its enduring fascinatio

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : UOM:39015063379518

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Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111264185

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Forschungen zur Theologie und Philosophie des Mittelalters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : UOM:39015068864738

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Medieval Encounters by Anonim Pdf

Author : Virginia Cox,John O. Ward
Publisher : Brill's Companions to the Chri
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015067710064

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The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition by Virginia Cox,John O. Ward Pdf

This volume examines the transmission and influence of Ciceronian rhetoric from late antiquity to the fifteenth century, examining the relationship between rhetoric and practices as diverse as law, dialectic, memory theory, poetics, and ethics. Includes an appendix of primary texts