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... classical exempla are mixed , reflecting the Christian / humanist synthesis.1 The classical and the Judeo- Christian traditions both contained favorable views of women : the clas- sical tradition offered Plato's remarks on the equality ...
... classical exempla are mixed , reflecting the Christian / humanist synthesis.1 The classical and the Judeo- Christian traditions both contained favorable views of women : the clas- sical tradition offered Plato's remarks on the equality ...
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... classical setting , Christian reference would be out of place . Foster Watson suggests that the Defense was written out of sympathy with Katharine of Aragon : " her death in 1536 may , indeed , have been the occasion for the production ...
... classical setting , Christian reference would be out of place . Foster Watson suggests that the Defense was written out of sympathy with Katharine of Aragon : " her death in 1536 may , indeed , have been the occasion for the production ...
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... classical rhetoric , stemming from Aristotle's Rhetoric and channeled through Latin rhetoricians . Two common rhetoric texts were Quintilian's Insti- tutio Oratoria and the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium , ascribed to Ci- cero ...
... classical rhetoric , stemming from Aristotle's Rhetoric and channeled through Latin rhetoricians . Two common rhetoric texts were Quintilian's Insti- tutio Oratoria and the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium , ascribed to Ci- cero ...
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Exordium I | 1 |
The Genre | 13 |
The Elizabethan Controversy | 49 |
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