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Classroom commentaries: teaching the Poetria nova across medieval and Renaissance Europe
Marjorie Curry Woods-
Frontmatter
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ABBREVIATIONS (page xi)
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PLATES DESCRIBED (page xv)
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PLATES (page xvii)
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xxxiii)
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Chapter I: WHY WAS THE POETRIA NOVA SO POPULAR (page 1)
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"The Efficient Cause of This Book" (page 1)
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Off with His Head! (page 2)
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The Other Audience (page 5)
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Shaping the Student (page 8)
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Better than the Ancients (page 12)
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The Arts of Poetry and Prose (page 15)
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"The Usefulness of the Work" (page 16)
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The Success of the Poetria nova (page 21)
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The Accessus and Frame (page 26)
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A Double Structure (page 35)
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Purple Patches (page 41)
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Proverbial Wisdom (page 44)
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The Masterpiece (page 47)
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Chapter 2: THE POETRIA NOVA AS SCHOOL TEXT (page 50)
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Reading between the Lines (page 50)
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Back to Basics (page 53)
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Dominican Reiner von Cappel (page 54)
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Shaping the Narrative (page 58)
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Better than Sex (page 60)
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Pyramus and Thisbe in the Poetria nova (page 63)
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Shorter is Better (page 66)
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The Female Body in the Classroom (page 67)
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Description and Circumlocution (page 70)
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Shortest Is Not Best (page 72)
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Transference and Transformation (page 73)
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The Display of Figures (page 75)
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Sermons (page 79)
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Separating the Men from the Boys (page 85)
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Conversion: The Origin of Style (page 87)
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Student Determination (page 91)
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Chapter 3: THE POETRIA NOVAAS EARLY HUMANIST TEXT (page 94)
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Our Englishman in Italy (page 94)
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Bartholomew of Pisa / Bartholomeus de Sancto Concordio (page 96)
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The Subject Is Rhetoric (page 98)
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A Preacher and a Teacher (page 100)
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The Poetria nova and the Preaching Orders (page 104)
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Pace of Ferrara (page 107)
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The Subject is Poetics (page 112)
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Pace on Mussato (page 118)
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Divide and Elevate (page 120)
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In Season (page 128)
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Stand and Counterstand (page 132)
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Geoffrey and Barzizza (page 136)
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Meanwhile, Back in Padua: Guizzardo of Bologna (page 138)
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Women in the Margin (page 141)
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Bible Stories in Composition Class (page 144)
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"It's Muglio" (page 146)
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A Teacher of Notaries in Ravenna (page 148)
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Franciscellus Mancinus, Benedictine Humanist (page 152)
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Comedy and the Commedia (page 158)
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Back and Forth (page 161)
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Chapter 4: THE POETRIEA NOVA AS UNIVERSITY TEXT IN CENTRAL EUROPE (page 163)
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Questioning Authority (page 164)
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A University Text (page 166)
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The Poetria nova as Dictaminal Treatise (page 169)
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Repetition, Redundancy, and the Learning Curve (page 172)
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The Importance of Being Aristotelian (page 175)
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The Poetria nova at Prague (page 178)
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Dybinus of Prague (page 182)
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Scripta, Dicta and Reportata (page 183)
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Scripta vs. Dicta in Practice (page 187)
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The Poetria nova at Vienna, Krakow, and Erfurt (page 210)
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Monks at University (page 219)
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Two Students at Leipzig (page 222)
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Excursus on the English Orbit (page 227)
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Chapter 5: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY COMMENTARIES ON THE POETRIA NOVA (page 234)
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The English Encyclopedists (page 234)
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Athanasius Kircher, Jesuit Polymath (page 240)
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Zacharias Lund: Classical Scholar and Poet (page 245)
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An End and a Beginning (page 251)
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Afterword (page 253)
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Looking Back (page 253)
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Geoffrey after Quintilian (page 255)
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Erasmus and Geoffrey (page 258)
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Looking Ahead (page 264)
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APPENDICES
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I. Transcription of List of Contents of the Poetria nova in Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, 311 (page 269)
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II. Scripta vs. Dicta in Practice: Transcriptions (page 273)
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MANUSCRIPT LIST OF THE POETRIA NOVA AND COMMENTARIES (page 289)
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LIST OF INCIPITS (page 309)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 319)
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INDEX LOCORUM (page 353)
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INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS CITED (page 356)
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GENERAL INDEX (page 359)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JIH | 43.3 (Winter. 2012): 447-448 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/454928 |
FSQR | 65.3 (Jul. 2011): 383 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/445080 |
JEGP | 111.4 (Oct. 2012): 519-522 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/487747 |
RHA | 31.2 (Spring. 2013): 223-225 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rh.2014.32.3.319 |
SP | 86.3 (July. 2011): 756-758 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41408967 |
RHLF | 112.3 (Dec. 2012): 963-964 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23352005 |
RQ | 63.4 (Winter. 2010): 1262-1263 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/658521 |
AEV | 85.2 (May-Aug. 2011): 637-639 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23248465 |
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Published: c2010
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press
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