The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630

Cover
Title
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Epigraph
Introduction
	I Mapping the Field
	II Reflections on Scholarship and Terminology
	III The Letters of Obscure Men
1 A Brief History of Early Modern Logic
	I Medieval Logic: The Story up to the 1530s
	II Humanist Logic c.1530–c.1590
		(i) Logic as a Practical Art
		(ii) The Relationship Between Logic and Rhetoric
		(iii) Changing Cultures of Teaching
	III Ramism c.1570–c.1590
		(i) Brevity vs Clarity in Ramist Logic
		(ii) Core Assumptions of Ramist Logic
		(iii) Ramist Logic in Theory and Practice
		(iv) Literary Possibilities and Limitations
	IV Aristotelian Revival and a Textbook Culture: 1580s–1630s
2 Logic in Practice at Early Modern Cambridge: Young Milton
	I Questionable Ramists in the College of Christ
	II Keckermann and Milton
	III Revisiting the Prolusions
3 Sex and the Disjunctive Syllogism: The Logic of Love in Donne\'s Poetry
	I \'craggie mountaines and thornie vallies\'? The Disciplinary Terrain of Logic
	II Disputing Terms: \'If faithfull soules\'
	III Thomas Wilson\'s Predicaments
	IV The Logic of (In-)Difference: Donne\'s Love Poems
	V Coda: Defining Donne
4 In Search of the Right Place: Sidney, Spenser, and the Dialectic of Invention
	I Rudolph Agricola and The Fate of Atlantis
	II Sidney, Harvey, and The Temple of Doom
	III Raiders of the Lost Architecture
	IV Topical Remedies: Arthur\'s Battle against Maleger
5 Andrewes, Spenser, and Reforming the Arts of Discourse
	I Andrewes\' Pattern of Interpretation
	II Melanchthon\'s Dialectical Rhetoric
	III \'Methodus Pauli\': The Text as Living Organism
	IV Elementa Rhetorices and Erotemata Dialectices: Pauline Method in Practice
	V Thomas Wilson: The Anatomy of Fallacy
	VI Spenser and the Devil\'s Syllogism
	VII Andrewes on the Edge of Reason
6 Truth Conditions: The Logic of Community in Early Modern Comedy
	I Jacopo Zabarella and the Gentili Brothers on the Logic of Drama
	II The Logic of Socialization in Early Modern Educational Handbooks
	III The Logic of Recognition in As You Like It
	IV Questioning Inferences: Hypotheticals and Counterfactuals
	V The Folly of Fools
Conclusion
Early Modern Logic: An Introductory Reading List
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index