The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval And Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition by John O. Ward

In this volume an expert team seeks to establish whether medieval and early Renaissance rhetorical theory and practice were innovative or derivative (from Graeco-Roman rhetoric), by looking at a unique range of key topics that underlie the postmodern culture of our own day: the medieval and early Renaissance study of Cicero's "De inventione" and the "Rhetorica ad Herennium"; the textual history and manuscript transmission of Cicero's rhetorical works;