The Significance of the Rhetorimachia of Anselm de Besate to the History of Rhetoric

Abstract

oUowing Rabanus Maurus' De institutione dericorum in 819 and prior to the appearance of the first authentically medieval rhetorical treatises in the second half of the eleventh century, only two works are known to have survived which deal specifically with the subject of rhetoric' The first of these, Noua rhetorica (before 1022), attributed to Notker Labeo, is a brief rhetorical compendium which has been translated and explicated