Template:Did you know nominations/List of literary descriptions of cities (before 1550)


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:11, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

List of literary descriptions of cities (before 1550)

 * ... that medieval works praising cities often follow rules laid down in Ancient Greece? Source: "The formal description of cities is part of a long tradition of epideictic rhetoric stretching back to antiquity that continued in the Middle Ages as a recognizable genre, in prose and poetry, of urban praise: the encomium civis or laus civis. [C. David Benson, 2009] and "...a type of literary exercise---the encomium urbis---which reached the Middle Ages hallowed by centuries of practice in the rhetorical schools of Greece and Rome." ... "The resemblances are due rather to the rigid imitation by medieval Western Europe of rhetorical forms already firmly established in Latin schools---and by them derived unchanged from the Greeks." [Margaret Schlauch, 1941, pp. 14, 23]


 * Reviewed: Bratton Downs
 * Comment: Moved to mainspace on 18 September. Espresso Addict (talk) 12:05, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Moved to mainspace by Espresso Addict (talk). Self-nominated at 12:05, 19 September 2016 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg This article is long enough and new enough. The hook fact is cited inline and the citations from which the hook fact is derived are quoted above. The article is neutral and my spot checks did not identify any close paraphrasing. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:07, 9 October 2016 (UTC)