“…Using contradictory arguments could have the effect of strengthening one's case by making sure that at least one would encounter the approval of the councillors. The judicial rhetoric of late medieval courts allowed pleaders to resort to an accumulation of arguments that did not need to be linked by a stringent relation of logical necessity (Hohmann, 1998). In the case of Vanna and her brother Andrea, in particular, the judicial context in which the petition was produced made it especially advantageous to juxtapose the motivations of the ' old' and 'new' man.…”
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“…Using contradictory arguments could have the effect of strengthening one's case by making sure that at least one would encounter the approval of the councillors. The judicial rhetoric of late medieval courts allowed pleaders to resort to an accumulation of arguments that did not need to be linked by a stringent relation of logical necessity (Hohmann, 1998). In the case of Vanna and her brother Andrea, in particular, the judicial context in which the petition was produced made it especially advantageous to juxtapose the motivations of the ' old' and 'new' man.…”
Section: Crime and Penance In Sienese Pastoral Texts And Lay Sourcesmentioning
This article has been peer reviewed through the double-blind process of Open Library of Humanities, which is a journal published by the Open Library of Humanities.
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