James J. Murphy, Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.(Further short notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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James J. Murphy, Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Variorum Collected Studies Series CS827 (Aldershot; Burlington, Va: Ashgate, 2005). x + 346 pp. ISBN 0-86078-972-1. 60.00 [pounds sterling]. Jerry Murphy's most welcome collection of twenty studies devoted to the subject which he defines as 'the study of past discourse to plan for future discourse', originally published over the period 1962-99, is especially valuable in that, building on his elegant overview of 'Western rhetoric in the ...

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