Medieval Rhetoric

Scott D. Troyan is Teaching Professor of Professional Communication in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin. He is editor of Textual Decorum: A Rhetoric of Attitudes in Medieval Literature, also published by Routledge.

"...a good source for interpretation on late medieval rhetoric...useful for those interested in the subtleties of interpretation." -- R. Natasha Amendola, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 3, 1007

• Preface 1. The Medieval Art of Poetry and Prose: The Scope of Instruction and the Uses of Models 2. Alphabets and Rosary Beads in Chaucer’s An ABC 3. On the Usefulness and Use Value of Books: A Medieval and Modern Inquiry 4. The Prioress’s Oratio ad Mariam and Medieval Prayer Composition 5. Time as Rhetorical Topos in Chaucer’s Poetry 6. Argument and Emotion in Troilus and Criseyde 7. Advice without Consent in Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales 8. The Traces of Invention: Phatic Rhetoric, Anthology, and Intertextuality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 9. “The Word Was Made Flesh”: Gendered Bodies and Anti-Bodies in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Arts of Poetry 10. Unwritten between the Lines: The Unspoken History of Rhetoric