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The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull: Lay Learning and Piety in the Christian West around 1300

by Mark D. Johnston. 274 pgs.

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Table of contents
Contents
Introduction , 3
1. Ramon Llull's Art of Arts , 12
2. Language as Being , 34
3. Language in Mind , 48
4. Invention , 70
5. Beauty in Language , 83
6. Beauty through Resemblance , 100
7. Order , 117
8. Propriety in Speaking , 130
9. Virtue in Speaking , 140
10. Llull's Sermons , 157
Conclusion , 180
Notes , 190
Works Cited , 220
Index , 261
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The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull: Lay Learning and Piety in the Christian West around 1300
Book by Mark D. Johnston; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Learning And Scholarship--History--Medieval, 500-1500, Llull, Ramon--1232?-1316, Rhetoric, Medieval, Spiritual Life--Christianity--History Of Doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500
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Oratory
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Porphyry , Greek Scholar
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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