The Sophistic trend in ancient rhetoric.
St. Augustine on preaching (De doctrina christiana, IV)
The last Roman schools and the compends (fifth to seventh centuries)
Poetic, old and new (fifth to seventh centuries)
The Carolingians and the tenth century.
Rhetoric and logic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Latin poetic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Poetic achievement in vernacular.