Texts in Context: Timeline of Early Modernity
At almost the same moment she discovered the Americas, Europe descended into chaos.
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Rhetorica: Past Conceiving, Fair
We close this series with an outline of tone and tropes, the clothing in which Lady Rhetoric is clad.
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Texts in Context: The Reformations
The wars of religion are nothing to the wars of religious historiography.
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Rhetorica: Style Over Substance
We have provided rhetoric with all its organs but two: the bones and the skin. We now give it a skeleton.
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Rhetorica: The Topoi, IV. Authority
To argue from authority would be beneath the dignity of theology, since “authority is the weakest kind of proof,” according to Boethius. —St. Thomas Aquinas
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Texts in Context: Wot Shall We Make of ye Anglish Language?
As we proceed with whatever this is we’re talking about, we once again pause to discuss how we’re talking about it.
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Rhetorica: The Topoi, III. Cause and Effect
This is, justly, a popular topos. But there are certain vulnerabilities inherent in it, which we disregard at our peril.
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Timeline of the High and Late Middle Ages
Texts in Context:Timeline of the Highand Late Middle Ages By Gabriel Blanchard This timeline covers the High and Late Mediævum, defined for our purposes as falling more or
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Texts in Context: The Ocean Blue
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, the globe was changed irrevocably, forever.
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Texts in Context: The Roots of the Other Renaissance
As the fifteenth century proceeded, a new wind was blowing out of the east, for both evil and good at once.
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