Rhetorical style and the formation of character: Ciceronian ethos in Thomas Wilson's<i>Arte of Rhetorique</i>

Agnew, Lois

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“…Although it cannot be certain that the falconry authors based their use of classical rhetoric on Wilson's teaching, chances are that at least the poet Turberville, a product of Winchester College and the inns of court, did come into contact with Wilson's work. As Agnew [33] explains, for Thomas Wilson, as for Cicero, the rhetor's ethos is derived primarily from style, rather than from a speaker's character. Wilson's Rhetorique reflects this understanding through its plain style and use of the vernacular, stylistic features found also in the falconry manuals.…”

Section: The Rhetorical Milieu Of the Periodmentioning

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Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Falconry Manuals: Technical Writing with a Classical Rhetorical Influence

Battalio

2013

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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This study traces Renaissance and post-Renaissance technical writers\u27 use of classical rhetoric in English instruction manuals on the sport of falconry. A study of the period\u27s five prominent falconry manuals written by four authors—George Turberville, Simon Latham, Edmund Bert, and Richard Blome—reveals these technical writers\u27 conscious use of classical rhetoric as an important technique to persuade readers to accept these authors\u27 authority and trust the information they were disseminating. These manuals employed several classical rhetorical techniques: invention by using ethos and several classical topics, classical arrangement, the plain style, and adaptation of the orator\u27s duties. The explanation for this classical influence rests in the authors\u27 own knowledge of classical rhetoric derived from sources such as Thomas Wilson, as well as the sources from whom these authors obtained their knowledge of falconry. The article ends by suggesting the origins through which these classical rhetorical techniques influenced the writing of the manuals

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Section: The Rhetorical Milieu Of the Periodmentioning

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Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Falconry Manuals: Technical Writing with a Classical Rhetorical Influence

Battalio

2013

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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W ilson, T homas

Wilson¹

2017

The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature

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Statesman and humanist scholar Thomas Wilson (c. 1523/24–81) survived exile in Italy and imprisonment by the Papal Inquisition to achieve a powerful position on Elizabeth I's Privy Council. More than just a skilful politician, Wilson was a pioneer of vernacular pedagogy, producing the first comprehensive English language textbooks on the subjects at the core of humanist curricula, logic, and rhetoric, The rule of reason (1551) and The arte of rhetorique (1553). These texts paved the way for future advocates of vernacular education, and in a period when virtually all advanced learning was carried out in Latin, Wilson's texts achieved unusual popularity, continuing to be reprinted until the 1580s.

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The Moor’s Counsel: Sir Francis Walsingham’s Advice to Elizabeth I

Coates

2018

Queenship and Counsel in Early Modern Europe

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Rhetorical style and the formation of character: Ciceronian ethos in Thomas Wilson'sArte of Rhetorique

Cited by 4 publications

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Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Falconry Manuals: Technical Writing with a Classical Rhetorical Influence

Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Falconry Manuals: Technical Writing with a Classical Rhetorical Influence

W ilson, T homas

The Moor’s Counsel: Sir Francis Walsingham’s Advice to Elizabeth I

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