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Rhetoric's Attitude Towards The Past In The Middle Ages

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The classical world of ancient Rome and Greece also influenced the attitude towards the past in the middle ages. It did this in a several ways. The use of rhetoric to structure your arguments, was one of the key philosophical inheritances from the classical world that determined the way the past was represented in the middle ages. Rhetoric had a sizeable impact upon the belief in the didactic nature of history. This is because demonstrative rhetoric set the way with which a person could be praised or blamed. To quote Isidore of Seville “history is a narration of events, through which that which occurred in the past is known”. Rhetoric provided a means of making their history convincing or plausible. This allowed the chronicler to write

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