The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to trace Quintilian's influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and education up to the present. Chapters cover topics including Quintilian's Institutio oratoria, his views on education and literary criticism, and his reception and influence.

Marc van der Poel is Professor of Latin language and literature at Radboud Universty, The Netherlands, since 1999, where he teaches classical Latin; he has served in various managent functions, including head of the classics department and associate dean of the faculty of arts. He is currently the President of the international Society for the History of Rhetoric (2019-2022). His expertise includes Latin ancient literature, philological study of Latin texts, ancient rhetoric, and the history of rhetoric. He is preparing a new, critical edition with a commentary of Rudolph Agricola's De inventione dialectica.
James J. Murphy is Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric at the University of California, Davis. Throughout his long career, his work has been focused on establishing historical connections and the continuity of classical rhetoric, in particular Latin rhetoric, in the intellectual, educational and political contexts of the postclassical Western world. A substantial part of his work revolves around the instruction of oral and written rhetoric from the Middle Ages in Europe until the present day in the United States of America.
Michael Edwards is Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was formerly Professor of Classics at Queen Mary, University of London, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and the University of Roehampton, where he was Head of Humanities. He was Director of the Institute of Classical Studies in the University of London, and was President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. His primary research interest is in the Attic Orators, on whom he has published extensively. He is preparing an Oxford Classical Text of Isaeus and a commentary on Aeschines' speech Against Ctesiphon.

Introduction
Part I: Life of Quintilian, and Quintilian Editions and Translations
1: Marc van der Poel: Quintilian: The Biographical Tradition
2: Marc van der Poel: Interpretative Survey of Quintilian Editions and Translations from 1470 until the Present
Part II: Quintilian's Rhetoric: The Institutio oratoria in Detail
3: James J. Murphy: The Structure and Contents of the Institutio oratoria
4: Marc van der Poel: Quintilian's Underlying Educational Programme
5: Gesine Manuwald: Quintilian's Concept and Classifications of Rhetoric
6: Lucia Calboli Montefusco: Quintilian on Invention and Disposition
7: Jeanne Fahnestock: Quintilian on Effective Language
8: D.S. Levene: Quintilian on Memory and Delivery
Part III: Quintilian In Context
9: Richard Leo Enos: Quintilian in the Greco-Roman Rhetorical Tradition
10: Thomas Zinsmaier: Quintilian as Master of Prose
11: Francisco Chico Rico: Quintilian as a Literary Critic
12: Bé Breij,: Quintilian and Declamation
13: Olga Tellegen-Couperus: Quintilian and the Law
14: Lucía Díaz Marroquín: Quintilian and the Performing Arts
15: Jane Masséglia: Quintilian and Visual Art
Part IV Quintilian in History
16: Catherine Schneider: Quintilian in Late Antiquity (from Lactantius to Isidore of Seville)
17: Elizabeth Kuhl: Quintilian in the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
18: Virginia Cox: Quintilian in the Italian Renaissance
19: Peter Mack: Quintilian in Northern Europe during the Renaissance, 1479-1620
20: Thomas Schirren: Quintilian in Europe from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century
21: Richard A. Katula and Cleve Wiese: Quintilian in the United States of America
22: William J. Dominik: Modern Assessments of Quintilian