Grammars and Rhetorics
Ian Cornelius
Grammar and rhetoric were the disciplines charged with teaching correct effective use of language in antiquity. In Middle Ages, these twin served to maintain Latin as a culture, religion, administration over much Europe. Grammatical studies flourished medieval England following conversion Anglo‐Saxons Christianity. Subsequent developments grammatical rhetorical Britain Ages track deep changes social conditioning literacy demands upon literacy. Among British innovations foreign language, cultural accommodation grammar Christianity, creation new genres textbooks, development bilingual pedagogies that paired vernacular languages.
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain