The Function of Adaptation in Notker's Rhetorica

Abstract

n his article The Teaching of Rhetoric in Middle Ages, R. R. Bolgar asserts that nmth, tenth, and eleventh centuries comprise the most important period in history of medieval because it was then that men became famiUar with subject, and when its different uses were carefuUy explored.' One work which weU represents this interest in rhetoric is a brief rhetorical treatise written sometime near end of tenth century and beUeved to be Noua rhetorica of a German monk, Notker Labeo of St. GaU. As one of few extant