Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780367636548 / Twarda / 2024 / 296 str.

Jaska Kainulainen

Opis

This book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jesuit contributions to the rhetorical tradition established by Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

2. Jesuits, Rome and the pagan tradition

3. Language teaching in Jesuit schools

4. Rhetoric in Jesuit education

5. Jesuit Ciceronianism

6. The Art of Letter Writing

7. Jesuit Rhetoric and civic life

8. Jesuit education and rhetoric in global context

9. Conclusion

                                                                                               

Appendix

 

Bibliography

O autorze

Jaska Kainulainen is Docent at the University of Helsinki, specialising in early Jesuit and rhetorical tradition and the history of travel in Early Modern History. His recent publications include Paolo Sarpi: A Servant of God and State (2014).