# Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400

Author: Baldwin, Charles Sears, 1867-1935

Genre: Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76844

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Medieval+rhetoric+and+poetic+to+1400+Baldwin&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Plato’s distrust of rhetoric is a permanent reminder. It is so significantly typical that it recurs throughout the history of education, and must recur. Again and again educational practise has found that it cannot do without rhetoric; again and again educational theory has grudgingly inquired what to do with it. For distrust of rhetoric may be more than the impatience of the philosopher with the orator, of speculation with ordered presentation, of the quest for truth with persuasion. This is involved too; for philosophers have often been impatient of presentation. They have wished to think aloud, or to question and answer, or merely to analyze for themselves, without being held to consec...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II[1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter ii proposes for a theme the scorning of the world (_De mundi](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/9/index.md)
- [c. PATTERN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/7/index.md)
- [d. ELABORATION OF STYLE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/2/index.md)
- [BOOK IV. _ANALYTICA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/27/index.md)
- [BOOK I. _GRAMMATICA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Book V. Summary Review of the Preceding Books](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/10/index.md)
- [viii. But the solution of a passage apparently corrupt may well await a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/17/index.md)
- [ii. Knowledge of truth being for them the highest good, the Peripatetics](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Book I. Choice of Words, Rhythmical Composition of Sentences](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter I above, and consult the index to this volume.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Book VI with a new set of definitions.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/26/index.md)
- [BOOK III. _TOPICA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Book III. _Salutatio](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Book IV. _Exordium, Narratio, Petitio, Conclusio](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/24/index.md)
- [ii. 32, where he is exhibiting the same sort of development as is here](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Book II. Figures](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/22/index.md)
- [volume I, _Il medio evo_, Milan, 1913 (2 parts in](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK II. _DEMONSTRATIVA_ AND _DIALECTICA](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/medieval-rhetoric-and-poetic-to-1400-76844/chapters/12/index.md)