Eloquence as Profession and Art: The Use of the "Ars Dictaminis" in the Letters of Gilbert Stone and His Contemporaries c1300-c1450.
- Author / Editor
- Everitt, Charles.
Eloquence as Profession and Art: The Use of the "Ars Dictaminis" in the Letters of Gilbert Stone and His Contemporaries c1300-c1450.
- Published
- D. Phil. Thesis. Oxford University, 1985.
- Physical Description
- vii, 293 pp.
- Description
- Studies the "ars dictaminis" in late-medieval England, focusing on its influence and uses in administrative circles, ecclesiastical and secular, with particular attention to the career of Gilbert Stone, an "episcopal chancellor." Includes discussion of the influence of the "ars" on the "poetic form and style" of Thomas Hoccleve and Chaucer. In the case of the latter, the influence was "not a strong direct influence" but "part of complex conditioning literary environment."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
Background and General Criticism