The Rhetorical Tradition in French Literature of the Later Middle Ages: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered in the University of Exeter on 17 January 1969 |
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... vernacular . Since a systematic exposé of their doctrine would provide material for several lectures , I shall confine myself this afternoon to what seem to me the most important characteristics which affected vernacular literature ...
... vernacular . Since a systematic exposé of their doctrine would provide material for several lectures , I shall confine myself this afternoon to what seem to me the most important characteristics which affected vernacular literature ...
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... vernacular , and I am not embarking here on a comprehensive account of them . Of the twenty - five figures described ... vernacular had no long literary tradition behind it , though it must not be implied that the theoretical works were ...
... vernacular , and I am not embarking here on a comprehensive account of them . Of the twenty - five figures described ... vernacular had no long literary tradition behind it , though it must not be implied that the theoretical works were ...
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... vernacular according to classical precepts and models . The Renaissance used the same sources . It had a more extensive knowledge of them , bringing in Greek as well as Latin , it made a more scholarly use of them , it followed them ...
... vernacular according to classical precepts and models . The Renaissance used the same sources . It had a more extensive knowledge of them , bringing in Greek as well as Latin , it made a more scholarly use of them , it followed them ...
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