Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric

First published in 1993. Volume 8 in the 9-volume set of Studies in Medieval Literature, a series of interpretative and analytic studies of the Western European literatures of the Middle Ages. This volume extends the canon of works to be read and studied by providing a new framework for understanding that will inspire students and scholars to look anew at Robert Henryson's poetry. The reader will find it rewarding to read the mainline exposition but will also find a second reward in the knowledge accumulated to support that exposition. The Nature of the Study, Henryson and the History of Rhetoric, Henryson and the Ars poetriae, Henryson and the Ars dictam inis, Henryson and the Ars praedicandi, Postscript: Henryson, Quintilian, and the Renaissance, Works Cited, Index