Date/Time
Date(s) - 9 Nov 2011
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
Butler Library, Columbia University
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November 9, 2011 (WEDNESDAY)
Butler Library, Room 523, 6:00PM
Peter Mack
Director, Warburg Institute (London)
“Print and Innovation in Sixteenth Century Rhetoric: Agricola, Erasmus
and Melancthon”
Rhetoric was one of the most important subjects in renaissance schools
and universities and also the subject of very large numbers of
editions, both of classical and of modern textbooks. This lecture will
describe the publishing phenomenon of renaissance rhetoric and discuss
the relationship between intellectual innovation in this field and
publishing success.
Prof. Mack has published widely on the history of logic and rhetoric
in the renaissance and is currently working on a group of papers
related to rhetoric and scholarship in England 1550-1650; Montaigne
in relation to the classical tradition and to his influence on English
writers, sixteenth and seventeenth century philosopher-rhetoricians
(Cavalcanti, Campanella, Bacon); and the ways in which rhetoricians
and writers have thought about the audience.
Reception follows.
Contact Michael Ryan ([email protected]) for more details.