This is a critical analysis of the rhetorical and preaching theories of the 13-century Spanish philosopher and theologian, Ramon Llull. It demonstrates how Llull adapted commonplace ideas of courtly speech and popular sermons in order to create a unitary art of secular and sacred eloquence. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; CFG; HPC; HRCC7; HRCM; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606. . 1996. First Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull: Lay Learning and Piety in the Christian West around 1300
Publisher: OUP USA
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195090055
ISBN 13: 9780195090055
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Ramon Llull (1232-1316), born on Majorca, was one of the most remarkable lay intellectuals of the thirteenth century. He devoted much of his life to promoting missions among unbelievers, the reform of Western Christian society, and personal spiritual perfection. He wrote over 200 philosophical and theological works in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic. Many of these expound on his "Great Universal Art of Finding Truth," an idiosyncratic dialectical system that he thought capable of proving Catholic beliefs to non-believers.

This study offers the first full-length analysis of his theories about rhetoric and preaching, which were central to his evangelizing activities. It explains how Llull attempted to synthesize commonplace advice about courtly speech and techniques of popular sermons into a single program for secular and sacred eloquence that would necessarily promote love of God and neighbor. Llull's work is a remarkable testimony to the diffusion of clerical culture among educated lay-people of his era, and to their enthusiasm for applying that knowledge in pursuit of learning and piety. This book should find a place on the shelf of every scholar of medieval history, religion, and rhetoric.

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Marl D. Johnston was Professor of Spanish at Illinois State University.

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