intellectuals jurisdiction

Rhetoric played an important role in training law students. It was the only science which dealt with the structure and composition of literary texts. Charter writing was taught by a special branch of rhetoric, called ars dicti (the art of writing). During these seminars clerks could compile the collection of samples (books of formulae). These are valuable sources of 16th-century literature. Charters always had a general, 'intellectual' content (arenga). Sometimes this developed into an independent prosaic work, a short story.

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