Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theoryfrom Saint Augustine to the Renaissance was first published in 1974 by the University of California Press and won the national book award of the Speech Communication Association. It has since been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Polish. In 2001 it, along with its companion anthology, Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts, was reprinted by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), and remains in print.
In the more than four decades since the book first appeared, a vast number of studies of medieval rhetoric have appeared and the field has advanced enormously. This Bibliographic Supplement allows readers to survey scholarly developments since 1974. It is organized into four chapters following the four sections of the original book: ancient rhetoric and its continuations, ars dictaminis, arts of poetry and prose, and ars praedicandi. Each chapter consists of a bibliographic essay discussing key works since 1974 in context and a bibliography specific to that chapter’s subject.
Introduction — James J. Murphy
Part I. Continuities from Ancient to Medieval Rhetoric — Denise Stodola
Part II. Poesis: The Art of Poetry and Prose in Treatises, Literary Masterpieces Commentaries, and Classrooms — Douglas Kelly
Part III. Ars dictaminis: The Art of Letter-Writing — Morris Tichenor
Part IV. Ars praedicandi: The Art of Preaching — Beverly M. Kienzle, Timothy M. Baker, and Jenny C. Bledsoe
Epilogue —James J. Murphy
James J. Murphy, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis, is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than twenty-four books on rhetoric, including A Short History of Writing Instruction and A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric.
