Renaissance Rhetoric

This book provides examples of the best modern scholarship on rhetoric in the renaissance. Lawrence Green, Lisa Jardine, Kees Meerhoff, Dilwyn Knox, Brian Vickers, George Hunter, Peter Mack, David Norbrook and Pat Rubin look at the reception of Aristotle''s Rhetoric in the renaissance; the place of rhetoric in Erasmus''s career, Melanchthon''s teaching, and sixteenth century protestant schools; th...