The dialectical questions : Erotemata dialectices

Author(s)

• Melanchthon, Philipp
• Fahnestock, Jeanne

Bibliographic Information

The dialectical questions : Erotemata dialectices

Philip Melanchthon ; translation and introduction by Jeanne Fahnestock

（International studies in the history of rhetoric, 15）

Brill, 2021

Other Title

Erotemata dialectices

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-518) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Dialectical Questions (Erotemata Dialectices) of Philip Melanchthon offers an English translation of one of the sixteenth-century's most influential textbooks on argumentation. The introduction sets the work in Melanchthon's life and times, reviews its content, and details its unique sample arguments drawn from medicine and natural philosophy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Dialectic in Melanchthon's Context 2 Melanchthon's Life-Long Dialectical Project 3 Comparing Melanchthon's Textbooks on Dialectic, 1520-1555 4 The Content of the Erotemata Dialectices: Expanding the Art 5 The Audiences for the Erotemata Dialectices 6 Applying the Art of Dialectic: The Examples 7 Sixteenth-Century Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Medicine in the Erotemata Dialectices 8 The Importance of the Erotemata Dialectices Comments on the Translation 1 Features of the Translation Translation Book I Book II Book III Book IV Works Cited Index

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Details

• NCID: BD0127233X
• ISBN:
  • 9789004466371
• LCCN: 2021032809
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 549 p.: ill.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA2313
  • DC23 : 470
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Latin language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Debates and debating -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB06115651