...The phrase medieval criticism is used throughout this chapter, as it less cumbersome than ‘criticism of the Middle Ages’. The chapter first presents a brief account of the principles of grammatica and Neoplatonism, and then explores the impact of Aristotle on biblical criticism...

... and informed use of these principles, proving himself an expert in the ars grammatica. Most of his derivations by suffixation or composition are correct, as are most derivations from Greek if the category is extended to include the common Indo-European descent of which antiquity had no notion...

... or elucidate Roman cultural memory in non-narrative, non-mimetic form, with a commitment to the truth. In sketching the origins of Roman grammatica – the scholarly study, and teaching, of language and literature – the biographer Suetonius famously delivers some hard-and-fast judgements...

... with all aspects of knowledge from liberal arts to medicine, law, time, cult books and libraries, and organisation of the religious year, along with theological, moral, and natural sciences. The first book, De grammatica, combines a technical approach to grammar with a more mystical view...

...This chapter discusses Ars grammatica and Disputatio de rhetorica et de virtutibus (Dialogue on Rhetoric and on Virtues), two treatises written by Alcuin of York around 790–800. Ars grammatica, part of Alcuin's opera...

... as a reader is shown. The chapter then moves from the material circumstances of Luther's reading to consider the reading practice within which Luther developed the concept of iustitia passiva. It also illustrates Luther's grammatica theologica. Charles V Emperor humanism...

...Bruno Rochette, The Use of Greek in Diomedes’ Ars grammatica In: Roman Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity. Edited by Adam Gitner, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197611975.003.0005 The essay surveys the presence...

...The chapter examines aspects of the history and theory of commentary, and places Badius’s own commentary practice within these contexts. It focuses in particular of the tradition of grammatica associated with the grammarians of Late Antiquity: Servius, Donatus, Diomedes...