This book demonstrates the connection between medieval traditions of grammar and rhetoric and medieval literary theory. It presents over fifty primary texts representing the development of grammar, rhetoric, and literary study from the early to the late Middle Ages. It places these works in their historical contexts and provides them with good annotation, thus making them useful resources for specialists and non-specialists alike. Many of these texts have
never been translated into English before. For the first time, the long traditions of grammar and rhetoric are presented together in one historical survey, and are placed in conceptual structure of
their contributions to literary theory.