Rhetoric in Byzantium : papers from the thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, University of Oxford, March 2001 / edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Jeffreys, Elizabeth.

Conference Name:

Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (35th : 2001 : Oxford, England)

Series:

Publications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ; 11.

Society for the Promotion of Byzantine studies publications ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Medieval--Byzantine Empire--Congresses.

Rhetoric, Medieval.

Byzantine Empire.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, U.K. ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2003.

Contents:

Section I The uses of rhetoric

1. Rhetoric and writing strategies in the ninth century / Martha Vinson 9

2. The rhetoric of Kekaumenos / Charlotte Roueche 23

3. Teachers and students of rhetoric in the late Byzantine period / C.N. Constantinides 39

4. Byzantine imperial panegyric as advice literature (1204-c. 1350) / Dimiter G. Angelov 55

Section II Public uses of rhetoric

5. Court poetry: questions of motifs, structure and function / Wolfram Horandner 75

6. 'Rhetorical' texts / Michael Jeffreys 87

7. Dramatic device or didactic tool? The function of dialogue in Byzantine preaching / Mary Cunningham 101

Section III Literature and rhetoric

8. How should a Byzantine text be read? / Jakov Ljubarskij 117

9. Praise and persuasion: argumentation and audience response in epideictic oratory / Ruth Webb 127

10. The role of vocabulary in Byzantine rhetoric as a stylistic device / Erich Trapp 137

11. Rhetoric, theory and the imperative of performance: Byzantium and now / Margaret Mullett 151

Section IV Rhetoric and historiography

12. George of Pisidia and the persuasive word: words, words, words ... / Mary Whitby 173

13. The rhetorical structures of Skylitzes' Synopsis Historion / Catherine Holmes 187

14. George Akropolites' rhetoric / Ruth Macrides 201

Section V Rhetoric and visual images

15. Byzantine rhetoric, Latin drama and the portrayal of the New Testament / Henry Maguire 215

16. 'Living painting' / Robin Cormack 235

17. Text and picture in manuscripts: what's rhetoric got to do with it? / Leslie Brubaker 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754634531

OCLC:

50868177