Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475

Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, ad 300-1475, ed. Rita Copeland and Ineke Sluiter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). xii + 972 pp. ISBN 978- 0-19-8 18341-9. £95.00. Rita Copeland and Ineke Sluiter have produced a very welcome coUection of translations of forty-nine texts aiming to 'make newly visible to its readers, as comprehensively as possible, the long roots of medieval literary culture and rhetoric' (p. v). The selected materials are organized into six parts, foUowing principles that are diachronic and composite in Une with the twin aims of presenting foundational texts in each period and then 'texts that exempUfy the impact of newer discipUnary approaches' (p....