TY - BOOK ID - 77883022 TI - Arguments in rhetoric against Quintilian : translation and text of Peter Ramus's Rhetoricae distinctiones in Quintilianum (1549) AU - Ramus, Petrus AU - Newlands, Carole Elizabeth. AU - Murphy, James Jerome. PY - 2010 SN - 1280696826 9786613673787 0809386143 9780809386147 9780809330140 0809330148 0875801137 9780875801131 PB - Carbondale [Ill.] : Southern Illinois University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Oratory KW - Rhetoric KW - Quintilian. KW - Early works to 1800 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77883022 AB - First published in 1986, this book offers the Latin text and English translation of a pivotal work by one of the most influential and controversial writers of early modern times. Pierre de la RameĢe, better known as Peter Ramus, was a college instructor in Paris who published a number of books attacking and attempting to refute foundational texts in philosophy and rhetoric. He began in the early 1540's with books on Aristotle-which were later banned and burned-and Cicero, and later, in 1549, he published Rhetoricae Distinctiones in Quintilianum. The purpose of Ramus's book ER -