Ars Poetriae
Purcell, William M![Ars Poetriae](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/178/1781616/CHSBZCOP031781616.jpg)
In this study of thirteenth-century poetry and prose composition, William M. Purcell corrects the tendency of classical historiographers to marginalize the contributions of medieval rhetoric and, specifically, to obscure the importance of ars poetriae. Defining the genre as a unique hybrid of rhetoric and grammar, he contends that it should be understood as a development important for its time and pertinent to the evolution of rhetorical theor...