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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"John of Salisbury"”.
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The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury: Medieval Rhetoric as Educational Praxis
… following question: what are the implications of John of Salisbury's rhetorical theory for his approach to education? The Metalogicon, John's defense of the trivium, represents the primary text analyzed throughout the project. John's medieval rhetorical theory explicated the reciprocal …
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FORGETTING THE WEAKNESS OF HER SEX AND A WOMAN'S SOFTNESS':HISTORIANS OF THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD AND THEIR FEMALE SUBJECT'
The number of historians who wrote during the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries creates the unusual problem of too many sources. The sheer number of interesting and powerful women does the same. In order to narrow the topic of the presentation of women in texts from this period, I have …
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Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
… figure in Roman history, but he is also one of the most difficult to understand. Since his assassination, Caesar has played an important role in discussions of political power, imperial government, tyranny, and tyrannicide. While there have been literary treatments of Caesar from William …
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Chronographia and Imperium: continuing the chronicle tradition of Eusebius-Jerome and Sigebert of Gembloux in twelfth-century Normandy
The Eusebius-Jeromian tradition of universal chronicle, as transmitted in twelfth-century Normandy via Sigebert of Gembloux, embodied an understanding of time (chronographia) as framed by the succession of the political order (imperium). Whereas earlier scholars attributed the twelfth-century …