Marjorie Curry Woods

An Unfashionable Rhetoric in the Fifteenth Century.

The Poetria nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, a medieval verse treatise on the composition of poetry according to rhetorical principles, was very popular as a school and university text during the fifteenth century, although it was not printed until the early eighteenth century. The intensified copying of and commenting on this text during the fifteenth century, the other contents of the fifteenth‐century manuscripts in which this text is found, its presence in fifteenth‐century book collections, and references to it by fifteenth‐century teachers and writers all indicate that this early thirteenth‐century text was still considered a valuable educational tool more than two hundred and fifty years after it was written. These facts reveal a coherence in composition theory and practice throughout the high Middle Ages and early Renaissance and the continued importance of medieval rhetorical pedagogy throughout the incunabular period.

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 2001

The Medieval Academy of America held its seventy-sixth annual meeting in Tempe, Arizona, on 15-17 March 2001. Arizona State University was the host for the meeting, which was held jointly with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Medieval Association of the Pacific. Meeting of the Corporation. The annual meeting of the Corporation was held on Friday, 16 March, at 1 P.M. Joan M. Ferrante, President, presided. The minutes of the seventyfifth annual meeting were heard and approved. Reports were delivered by the Executive Director, incoming Treasurer, Editor of Speculum, and Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. The following resolution, voted unanimously by Council at its meeting the previous day, was read by President Ferrante:

Writing instruction in late medieval Europe

Ways to Read This Book: An Introduction, James J. Murphy * Ancient Greek Writing Instruction and Its Oral Antecedents, Richard Leo Enos * Roman Writing Instruction as Described by Quintilian, James J. Murphy * Writing Instruction from Late Antiquity to the Twelfth Century, Carol Dana Lanham * Writing Instruction in Late Medieval Europe, Martin Camargo and Marjorie Curry Woods * Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric in the Renaissance, Don Paul Abbott * Writing Instruction in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Great Britain: Continuity and Change, Transitions and Shifts, Linda Ferreira-Buckley * From Rhetoric to Rhetorics: An Interim Report on the History of American Writing Instruction to 1900, Suzanne Bordelon, Elizabethada A. Wright, and S. Michael Halloran * Writing Instruction in School and College English: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium, David Gold, Catherine L. Hobbs, and James A. Berlin Not a Conclusion, But an Epilogue, James J. Murphy Glossary of Key Terms in the History of Writing Instruction The Next Step in Your Research: A Bibliography for Further Study