"Enthymeme and Emotion from Aristotle to Hoccleve"

A talk by Visiting Hurst Professor Rita Copeland

Professor Copeland works across a number of fields and periods, including: medieval literature (English, Latin, French); literary theory from ancient to modern; the history of rhetoric; the reception of classical traditions in medieval and early modern Europe; intellectuals, learning, and literacy in medieval Europe; history of the emotions.  Her current projects include the Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature 800-1558, and essays on medieval Latin annotation and glossing and on Aristotle's Rhetoric in medieval England.  She is also interested in representations of the intellectual in pre-modern Europe, from late antique rhetorical culture to late medieval university cultures and heretical communities.  Her recent books are: Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric:  Language Arts and Literary Theory AD 300-1475, co-authored with Ineke Sluiter;and The Cambridge Companion to Allegory, co-edited with Peter Struck.