{"id":28,"date":"2025-08-12T20:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/historyofrhetoric\/?p=28"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:41:47","slug":"chapter-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routledgelearning.com\/historyofrhetoric\/chapter-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rhetoric in Christian Europe <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chapter Six <\/strong>considers rhetoric during the Middle Ages as it grew in significance in North Africa and Europe. The chapter also considers the medieval influence of Cicero\u2019s De Inventione<\/em> and a few other classical sources. Theorists explored include Augustine, Martianus Capella, and Boethius. The three medieval rhetorical arts explored include preaching, letter writing, and poetry writing. The centrality of letter writing is stressed, as it preserved social hierarchies. The need to teach Christian principles to an often undereducated and almost entirely Christian public called for a rhetoric of preaching. A rising demand for writing instruction, growing interest in the aesthetic potential of written language, as well as the recognition of poetry\u2019s potential argumentative uses, contributed to the adaptation of rhetorical insights from antiquity to the writing of poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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