Rhetoric in Byzantium
Subtitle: papers from the thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, University of Oxford, March 2001
By: edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys.
Contributors: Jeffreys, Elizabeth.
Series: Society for the promotion of Byzantine studies. Publications ;; 11; Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ;; 11.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Rhetoric, Medieval -- Byzantine Empire -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Elizabeth Jeffreys Introduction 1; title: Section I The uses of rhetoric; title: 1. Martha Vinson Rhetoric and writing strategies in the ninth century 9; title: 2. Charlotte Roueche The rhetoric of Kekaumenos 23; title: 3. C.N. Constantinides Teachers and students of rhetoric in the late Byzantine period 39; title: 4. Dimiter G. Angelov Byzantine imperial panegyric as advice literature (1204-c. 1350) 55; title: Section II Public uses of rhetoric; title: 5. Wolfram Horandner Court poetry: questions of motifs, structure and function 75; title: 6. Michael Jeffreys 'Rhetorical' texts 87; title: 7. Mary Cunningham Dramatic device or didactic tool? The function of dialogue in Byzantine preaching 101; title: Section III Literature and rhetoric; title: 8. Jakov Ljubarskij How should a Byzantine text be read? 117; title: 9. Ruth Webb Praise and persuasion: argumentation and audience response in epideictic oratory 127; title: 10. Erich Trapp The role of vocabulary in Byzantine rhetoric as a stylistic device 137; title: 11. Margaret Mullett Rhetoric, theory and the imperative of performance: Byzantium and now 151; title: Section IV Rhetoric and historiography; title: 12. Mary Whitby George of Pisidia and the persuasive word: words, words, words173; title: 13. Catherine Holmes The rhetorical structures of Skylitzes' Synopsis Historion 187; title: 14. Ruth Macrides George Akropolites' rhetoric 201; title: Section V Rhetoric and visual images; title: 15. Henry Maguire Byzantine rhetoric, Latin drama and the portrayal of the New Testament 215; title: 16. Robin Cormack 'Living painting' 235; title: 17. Leslie Brubaker Text and picture in manuscripts: what's rhetoric got to do with it? 255.