Rita Copeland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Copeland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Copeland |
| SIGNATURE | COPELAND R |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 12 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ambiguity and Intention in Ancient and Medieval Rhetorical Thought
Ancient and medieval rhetorical theorists gave much attention to discovering an author's intent ( voluntas ) from the letter of a document ( scriptum ). By contrast, resolving ambiguity ( ambiguitas ) was supposedly easy. But in fact, ambiguity proves the more slippery problem because it functions somewhere between argumentation (a controversy to be disputed) and stylistic embellishment. Legal discourse often tried to impose limits on ambiguity, …
Machines of the Mind: Personification in Medieval Literature
Medieval Christianity in Practice
Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is th…
Personal name Index
Enthymeme
Enthymeme Rita Copeland (bio) Kings and princes are feared for the way they exact punishment. And this happens when their judges and officers are sly and secretive in punishing and enforcing justice, so that the miscreants cannot escape and avoid punishment. Thus it is stated in Aristotle's Rhetoric book 2 [1382 b20], that those who are secretive are more feared than those who are forthright.1 Obviously this is not a universal truth. The power of…
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 1: 800–1558
This multi-contributory volume surveys the reception and transformation of classical literary culture in England up to the Henrician era. Context for medieval reception is provided by chapters on the classics in the medieval curriculum, the trivium and quadrivium, medieval libraries, and medieval mythography. Reception of specific classical authors and traditions is surveyed in chapters on Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius, the matter of Troy, Boethiu…
Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 1
Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries
This comparative study traces Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural interpretation from antiquity to modernity, with special emphasis on the pivotal medieval period. It focuses on three areas: responses in the different faith traditions to tensions created by the need to transplant scriptures into new cultural and linguistic contexts; changing conceptions of the literal sense and its importance vis-à-vis non-literal senses, such as the figurat…
Pathos and Pastoralism: Aristotle's Rhetoric in Medieval England
In 1927 Heidegger claimed that there was hardly a better analysis of the emotions than Aristotle's account in book 2 of his Rhetoric. Here I will consider how this pronouncement might have rung true for a fifteenth-century English preacher. My study concerns an unexpected junction of two textual worlds, one ancient and one medieval, all the more surprising because the connection occurs in the mind of a fifteenth-century annotator of a manuscript …
Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300 -1475
Tiberius Claudius Donatus, Interpretationes Vergilianae, CA. 400
Virgilius Maro Grammaticus, Epistolae and Epitomae, CA. 650
This chapter discusses Epistolae and Epitomae, two grammatical works written by Virgilius Maro grammaticus around 650. Both Epitomae and Epistolae deal with the parts of speech and use obvious elements of parody. An apparently important unifying theme is Virgilius's emphasis on the possibility that language has several meanings. The Epistolae and Epitomae are based on Donatus's Ars minor and Ars maior; the latter is devoted to ‘word-splitting’, e…
Thierry of Chartres, Commentaries on the De inventione and Rhetorica Ad Herennium, CA. 1130–1140
This chapter discusses commentaries written around 1130–1140 by Thierry of Chartres on De inventione and Rhetorica ad Herennium. Both works reflect Thierry's commitment to the language arts and the Platonist cosmology as well as his philosophical outlook regarding the ‘seminal causes’ of natural and divine truths. His prologue to the art of rhetoric also attests to his methodological innovation. In addition, Thierry makes a distinction between ‘e…
Martianus Capella, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, CA. 420–490
This chapter discusses De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (The Marriage of Philology and Mercury), an influential commentary on the liberal arts written by the fifth-century author Martianus Capella. Due to its form, the prosimetrum, and its framework, an allegorised mythography and cosmology, De nuptiis is an ideal source of complete and reliable information about the seven liberal arts. The exposition of the arts is framed by a ‘plot’ whereby M…
The Cambridge Companion to Allegory
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosop…
The History of Rhetoric and the Longue Durée: Ciceronian Myth and Its Medieval Afterlives
Research Article| April 01 2007 The History of Rhetoric and the Longue Durée: Ciceronian Myth and Its Medieval Afterlives Rita Copeland Rita Copeland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2007) 106 (2): 176–202. https://doi.org/10.2307/27712650 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rita Copeland; The History of Rhetoric …
New Medieval Literatures
New Medieval Literatures
New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures. It provides a venue for innovative research representing the diverse methodologies of medieval studies – theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist. Volume 5 is marked by a preoccupation with origins or beginnings: the return to some of the foundational texts of the ‘modern’, here Marx, Freud, and classical Marxist literary criticism; or how the Middle Ages them…
New Medieval Literatures: Volume V (New Medieval Literatures)
Classroom and confession
The thirteenth century, a period that sees the growth of schools, also sees the growth of the confessional system. These two developments are not unrelated: the legislation of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 making annual confession to one's own parish priest universal and compulsory also renewed the call of the Third Lateran Council of 1179 for establishment of more schools and masters at cathedrals and churches to provide comprehensive pasto…
New Medieval Literatures
New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on medieval textual cultures. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies. The title announces an interest both in new writing about medieval culture and in new academic writing. As well as featuring challenging new articles, each issue will include an analytical survey by a leading internatio…
New Medieval Literatures: Volume II (New Medieval Literatures)
Ancient and Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past. Janet Coleman
Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages: Academic Traditions and Vernacular Texts
Translation played a crucial role in the emergence of vernacular literary culture in the Middle Ages. This is the first book to consider the rise of translation as part of a broader history of critical discourses from classical Rome to the late Middle Ages, and as such adds significantly to our understanding of the development of European culture.
Pathos and Pastoralism: Aristotle's Rhetoric in Medieval England
In 1927 Heidegger claimed that there was hardly a better analysis of the emotions than Aristotle's account in book 2 of his Rhetoric. Here I will consider how this pronouncement might have rung true for a fifteenth-century English preacher. My study concerns an unexpected junction of two textual worlds, one ancient and one medieval, all the more surprising because the connection occurs in the mind of a fifteenth-century annotator of a manuscript …
Allegory and Allegoresis, Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
I profess to Your Highness, in the integrity of my heart, that what I am going to say is literally true this minute I am writing: What Revolutions may happen before it shall be ready for your perusal, I can by no means warrant....–Jonathan Swift,A Tale of A Tub, Epistle Dedicatory
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women . Caroline Walker Bynum
Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages: Academic Traditions and Vernacular Texts
Translation played a crucial role in the emergence of vernacular literary culture in the Middle Ages. This is the first book to consider the rise of translation as part of a broader history of critical discourses from classical Rome to the late Middle Ages, and as such adds significantly to our understanding of the development of European culture.
Allegory and Allegoresis, Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
I profess to Your Highness, in the integrity of my heart, that what I am going to say is literally true this minute I am writing: What Revolutions may happen before it shall be ready for your perusal, I can by no means warrant....–Jonathan Swift,A Tale of A Tub, Epistle Dedicatory
Ancient and Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past. Janet Coleman
New Medieval Literatures
New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on medieval textual cultures. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies. The title announces an interest both in new writing about medieval culture and in new academic writing. As well as featuring challenging new articles, each issue will include an analytical survey by a leading internatio…
New Medieval Literatures: Volume II (New Medieval Literatures)
Classroom and confession
The thirteenth century, a period that sees the growth of schools, also sees the growth of the confessional system. These two developments are not unrelated: the legislation of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 making annual confession to one's own parish priest universal and compulsory also renewed the call of the Third Lateran Council of 1179 for establishment of more schools and masters at cathedrals and churches to provide comprehensive pasto…
New Medieval Literatures
New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures. It provides a venue for innovative research representing the diverse methodologies of medieval studies – theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist. Volume 5 is marked by a preoccupation with origins or beginnings: the return to some of the foundational texts of the ‘modern’, here Marx, Freud, and classical Marxist literary criticism; or how the Middle Ages them…
New Medieval Literatures: Volume V (New Medieval Literatures)
New Medieval Literatures
The History of Rhetoric and the Longue Durée: Ciceronian Myth and Its Medieval Afterlives
Research Article| April 01 2007 The History of Rhetoric and the Longue Durée: Ciceronian Myth and Its Medieval Afterlives Rita Copeland Rita Copeland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2007) 106 (2): 176–202. https://doi.org/10.2307/27712650 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Rita Copeland; The History of Rhetoric …
The Cambridge Companion to Allegory
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosop…
Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300 -1475
Tiberius Claudius Donatus, Interpretationes Vergilianae, CA. 400
Virgilius Maro Grammaticus, Epistolae and Epitomae, CA. 650
This chapter discusses Epistolae and Epitomae, two grammatical works written by Virgilius Maro grammaticus around 650. Both Epitomae and Epistolae deal with the parts of speech and use obvious elements of parody. An apparently important unifying theme is Virgilius's emphasis on the possibility that language has several meanings. The Epistolae and Epitomae are based on Donatus's Ars minor and Ars maior; the latter is devoted to ‘word-splitting’, e…
Thierry of Chartres, Commentaries on the De inventione and Rhetorica Ad Herennium, CA. 1130–1140
This chapter discusses commentaries written around 1130–1140 by Thierry of Chartres on De inventione and Rhetorica ad Herennium. Both works reflect Thierry's commitment to the language arts and the Platonist cosmology as well as his philosophical outlook regarding the ‘seminal causes’ of natural and divine truths. His prologue to the art of rhetoric also attests to his methodological innovation. In addition, Thierry makes a distinction between ‘e…
Martianus Capella, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, CA. 420–490
This chapter discusses De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (The Marriage of Philology and Mercury), an influential commentary on the liberal arts written by the fifth-century author Martianus Capella. Due to its form, the prosimetrum, and its framework, an allegorised mythography and cosmology, De nuptiis is an ideal source of complete and reliable information about the seven liberal arts. The exposition of the arts is framed by a ‘plot’ whereby M…
Pathos and Pastoralism: Aristotle's Rhetoric in Medieval England
In 1927 Heidegger claimed that there was hardly a better analysis of the emotions than Aristotle's account in book 2 of his Rhetoric. Here I will consider how this pronouncement might have rung true for a fifteenth-century English preacher. My study concerns an unexpected junction of two textual worlds, one ancient and one medieval, all the more surprising because the connection occurs in the mind of a fifteenth-century annotator of a manuscript …
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 1: 800–1558
This multi-contributory volume surveys the reception and transformation of classical literary culture in England up to the Henrician era. Context for medieval reception is provided by chapters on the classics in the medieval curriculum, the trivium and quadrivium, medieval libraries, and medieval mythography. Reception of specific classical authors and traditions is surveyed in chapters on Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius, the matter of Troy, Boethiu…
Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 1
Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries
This comparative study traces Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural interpretation from antiquity to modernity, with special emphasis on the pivotal medieval period. It focuses on three areas: responses in the different faith traditions to tensions created by the need to transplant scriptures into new cultural and linguistic contexts; changing conceptions of the literal sense and its importance vis-à-vis non-literal senses, such as the figurat…
Enthymeme
Enthymeme Rita Copeland (bio) Kings and princes are feared for the way they exact punishment. And this happens when their judges and officers are sly and secretive in punishing and enforcing justice, so that the miscreants cannot escape and avoid punishment. Thus it is stated in Aristotle's Rhetoric book 2 [1382 b20], that those who are secretive are more feared than those who are forthright.1 Obviously this is not a universal truth. The power of…
Medieval Christianity in Practice
Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is th…
Personal name Index
Art (18 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · History (15 works) · Literature (14 works) · Rhetoric (11 works) · Medieval Literature and History (10 works) · Classics (9 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History and criticism (6 works)