Chambers of Rhetoric

Alisa van de Haar

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Pages:: 283–329

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004408593_008

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This chapter studies the discussions on language that took place in the chambers of rhetoric, where men with diverse professional back-grounds, such as schoolmaster Peeter Heyns, came together to practice the art of rhetoric in the vernacular. In this environment, knowledge of other languages was used in order to strengthen the mother tongue. Rhetoricians not only wrote literature in their native language, they also studied it, both in theoretical treatises, such as the Twe-spraack, the first printed grammar book of Dutch, and by experimenting with language in their poetry. The chambers paid attention to spelling and to the use of loanwords, on which diverse but mostly nuanced opinions were ex-pressed. Rhetoricians were not necessarily conservative in their choices regarding language forms and poetic style, which is how they are often presented in modern studies; they reflected critically on ways to im-prove their language.

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The Golden Mean of Languages

Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540–1620)

Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 305

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004408593

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 Jun 2019

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