_conformatio_, prosopopœia 17. _significatio_, suggestion, insinuation 18. _brevitas_, rapid narration 19. _demonstratio_, ecphrasis 2. sentence movement (_compositio_), 83, 216 a. _prosaicum_ (_epistolare_), _metricum_, _rhythmicum_, 220 b. _stilus Aurelianensis_, _Hilarianus_, _Isidorianus_, _Romanus_, _Tullianus_, 194, 217 c. _distinctiones_ (1) _dependens_ (_cæsum_), 218 (2) _constans_ (_membrum_), 218 (3) _periodus_ (_circuitus_), 219 d. euphony, 83, 218, 221 e. balance, 42-48, 80, 145, 252 (1) prose rime, 252, 253 (2) refrain, 254-257 f. cadence, 69, 70, 250 (1) _cursus_: _planus_, _tardus_, _velox_, 223-227 IV. Delivery (237) and V. Memory (163) little discussed MEDIEVAL POETIC A. POETICA IN SCHOOL I. _Prælectio_, 88, 129, 160-164 II. Metric and Verse-writing, 87, 96, 129, 131, 184 1. coöperative and cumulative school verse, 141, 191 2. merging of poetic with rhetoric, 76, 186, 193 a. doctrine from _Ars poetica_, 86, 159 b. figures from _Rhetorica ad Herennium_ (see above) III. Kinds of Poetry, 131, 175 B. LATIN POETRY I. Ambrosian Development, 116-118, 132 II. _Corde natus_ Development, 119-121, 134, 201 III. Other Hymn Measures, 121, 122, 136-141 IV. Dactylic and Spondaic Effects, 122, 137, 198 V. Rime and Stanza, 141, 197-203 C. SYMBOLISM I. Allegory, 92, 104, 172, 173 II. Type, Prefiguration, Mysticism, 120, 124, 203-205, 239-245, 273-276 D. VERNACULAR NARRATIVE I. Epic: Germanic (intensive), 145-149; French (extensive), 259, 260 II. Romance 1. conventions of composition, 196, 261, 267, 281 2. salience and movement, 263, 268, 269, 275-277, 297 a. dialogue, 266, 286 3. characterization, 265-267, 287-289, 298 III. Oral Values and Habits, 245, 285, 301 GENERAL INDEX A Abbo of Fleury, 130, 144 Abelard, 138, 167 _Abjiciamus_, 236 Abrahams, P., 141 _abusio_, 305 accentual verse, 107-123, 133, 141, 148, 184, 189, 190, 191, 194, 195, 197-205, 220, 226, 281 _accentus_, 219 Achard of St. Victor, 252 Adam of St. Victor, 201-204 _Adesto, Christe, vocibus_, 133 _adjunctio_, 304 _Adnue, Christe, sæculorum Domine_, 136 _Adoro te devote_, 205 Advent antiphons, 203, 273 Æsop, 23, 190 _Agnus et leo, mitis et terribilis_, 136 Alain de Lille (Alanus de Insulis), 79, 104, 172-174, 175, 189, 190, 238, 239, 241, 254, 284 Alberic of Monte Cassino, 214, 219, 223 Alcuin, 127, 128, 130, 136, 140, 142 _Ales diei nuntius_, 117 Alexandre de Villedieu, 184-186, 190, 198, 219 Alexandrianism, 19, 20 allegory, 92, 104, 130, 172, 173, 174, 185, 237, 240, 273 _Alleluia, dulce carmen_, 135