title: Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance
author:  Cheryl Glenn 
description: After explaining how and why women have been excluded from the rhetorical tradition from antiquity through the Renaissance, Cheryl Glenn provides the opportunity for Sappho, Aspasia, Diotima, Hortensia, Fulvia, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Margaret More Roper, Anne Askew, and Elizabeth I to speak with equal authority and as eloquently as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Augustine. Her aim is nothing less than regendering and changing forever the history of rhetoric.
zlib_text: Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
  There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing from the two millennia
  before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on this material.
  It traces the development of traditions of knowledge-ordering which
  stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world.
  It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea
  that there was any clear pre-modern genre of the ‘encyclopaedia’, and
  showing instead how the rhetoric and techniques of comprehensive
  compilationlefttheirmarkonasurprisingrangeoftexts.Intheprocess
  it draws attention to both remarkable similarities and striking differ-
  ences between conventions of encyclopaedic compilation in different
  periods. The focus is primarily on European/Mediterranean culture.
  The book covers classical, medieval (including Byzantine and Arabic)
  and Renaissance culture in turn, and combines chapters which survey
  whole periods with others focused closely on individual texts as 