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Classroom commentaries: teaching the Poetria nova across medieval and Renaissance Europe

Marjorie Curry Woods
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • ABBREVIATIONS (page xi)
  • PLATES DESCRIBED (page xv)
  • PLATES (page xvii)
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xxxiii)
  • Chapter I: WHY WAS THE POETRIA NOVA SO POPULAR (page 1)
    • "The Efficient Cause of This Book" (page 1)
    • Off with His Head! (page 2)
    • The Other Audience (page 5)
    • Shaping the Student (page 8)
    • Better than the Ancients (page 12)
    • The Arts of Poetry and Prose (page 15)
    • "The Usefulness of the Work" (page 16)
    • The Success of the Poetria nova (page 21)
    • The Accessus and Frame (page 26)
    • A Double Structure (page 35)
    • Purple Patches (page 41)
    • Proverbial Wisdom (page 44)
    • The Masterpiece (page 47)
  • Chapter 2: THE POETRIA NOVA AS SCHOOL TEXT (page 50)
    • Reading between the Lines (page 50)
    • Back to Basics (page 53)
    • Dominican Reiner von Cappel (page 54)
    • Shaping the Narrative (page 58)
    • Better than Sex (page 60)
    • Pyramus and Thisbe in the Poetria nova (page 63)
    • Shorter is Better (page 66)
    • The Female Body in the Classroom (page 67)
    • Description and Circumlocution (page 70)
    • Shortest Is Not Best (page 72)
    • Transference and Transformation (page 73)
    • The Display of Figures (page 75)
    • Sermons (page 79)
    • Separating the Men from the Boys (page 85)
    • Conversion: The Origin of Style (page 87)
    • Student Determination (page 91)
  • Chapter 3: THE POETRIA NOVAAS EARLY HUMANIST TEXT (page 94)
    • Our Englishman in Italy (page 94)
    • Bartholomew of Pisa / Bartholomeus de Sancto Concordio (page 96)
    • The Subject Is Rhetoric (page 98)
    • A Preacher and a Teacher (page 100)
    • The Poetria nova and the Preaching Orders (page 104)
    • Pace of Ferrara (page 107)
    • The Subject is Poetics (page 112)
    • Pace on Mussato (page 118)
    • Divide and Elevate (page 120)
    • In Season (page 128)
    • Stand and Counterstand (page 132)
    • Geoffrey and Barzizza (page 136)
    • Meanwhile, Back in Padua: Guizzardo of Bologna (page 138)
    • Women in the Margin (page 141)
    • Bible Stories in Composition Class (page 144)
    • "It's Muglio" (page 146)
    • A Teacher of Notaries in Ravenna (page 148)
    • Franciscellus Mancinus, Benedictine Humanist (page 152)
    • Comedy and the Commedia (page 158)
    • Back and Forth (page 161)
  • Chapter 4: THE POETRIEA NOVA AS UNIVERSITY TEXT IN CENTRAL EUROPE (page 163)
    • Questioning Authority (page 164)
    • A University Text (page 166)
    • The Poetria nova as Dictaminal Treatise (page 169)
    • Repetition, Redundancy, and the Learning Curve (page 172)
    • The Importance of Being Aristotelian (page 175)
    • The Poetria nova at Prague (page 178)
    • Dybinus of Prague (page 182)
    • Scripta, Dicta and Reportata (page 183)
    • Scripta vs. Dicta in Practice (page 187)
    • The Poetria nova at Vienna, Krakow, and Erfurt (page 210)
    • Monks at University (page 219)
    • Two Students at Leipzig (page 222)
    • Excursus on the English Orbit (page 227)
  • Chapter 5: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COMMENTARIES ON THE POETRIA NOVA (page 234)
    • The English Encyclopedists (page 234)
    • Athanasius Kircher, Jesuit Polymath (page 240)
    • Zacharias Lund: Classical Scholar and Poet (page 245)
    • An End and a Beginning (page 251)
  • Afterword (page 253)
    • Looking Back (page 253)
    • Geoffrey after Quintilian (page 255)
    • Erasmus and Geoffrey (page 258)
    • Looking Ahead (page 264)
  • APPENDICES
    • I. Transcription of List of Contents of the Poetria nova in Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, 311 (page 269)
    • II. Scripta vs. Dicta in Practice: Transcriptions (page 273)
  • MANUSCRIPT LIST OF THE POETRIA NOVA AND COMMENTARIES (page 289)
  • LIST OF INCIPITS (page 309)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 319)
  • INDEX LOCORUM (page 353)
  • INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS CITED (page 356)
  • GENERAL INDEX (page 359)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JIH 43.3 (Winter. 2012): 447-448 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/454928
FSQR 65.3 (Jul. 2011): 383 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/445080
JEGP 111.4 (Oct. 2012): 519-522 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/487747
RHA 31.2 (Spring. 2013): 223-225 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rh.2014.32.3.319
SP 86.3 (July. 2011): 756-758 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41408967
RHLF 112.3 (Dec. 2012): 963-964 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23352005
RQ 63.4 (Winter. 2010): 1262-1263 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/658521
AEV 85.2 (May-Aug. 2011): 637-639 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23248465
Citable Link
Published: c2010
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780814211090 (hardcover)
  • 9780814254806 (paper)
  • 9780814276334 (ebook)
Subject
  • Rhetoric
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