Teaching the Tropes in the Middle Ages: The Theory of Metaphoric Transference in Commentaries on the Poetria nova

Abstract

In a plenary lecture at the 1983 Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Brian Vickers argued that we should stop studying medieval rhetoric: C. S. Baldwin had been right in his condemnation of this confused and confusing field 50 years earlier.1 Time spent on medieval rhetoric and poetic could, according to Vickers, be spent more profitably on the history of rhetoric during other periods.

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