Disputatio 5: Medieval Forms of Argument: Disputation and Debate: Disputation and Debate

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Georgiana Donavin, Carol Poster, Richard Utz
Wipf and Stock Publishers, Apr 29, 2002 - History - 216 pages
Especially in the high and late Middle Ages the academic disputation gradually moved from the isolation of the universities and toward extracurricular forms of debate between theologians (such as, the public quaestiones disputatae, or the epistolary theological debates between Christians and Muslims) and in literary genres (such as, the querelle, a form of debate poem). By confronting sample investigations from all these related forms of medieval argument, the volume examines the ways in which disputational forms -- sometimes directly dependant on academic practices, sometimes showing organizational, structural, and discursive parallels -- established themselves as a central mode of thinking for Western society. To achieve this goal, the volume unites contributions from the English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian traditions of the disputational mode and discusses central issues of academic, political, theological, courtly, and literary debates. Book jacket.
 

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Spring
1
Order in Obligational Disputations
23
His Elaboration of Aristotles
41
Political Discourse in Malorys Morte Darthur
67
The Poetics of SelfDestruction in the
87
The Love Debate Tradition in the Reception of Gowers
103
The European Querelle des femmes
127
Muslime und Christen im Grafen Rudolf und in der Kreuzfahrt Landgra
157
La réception en langue vulgaire du De falconibus dAlbert le Grand
189
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