Anthologies of historiographical speeches from antiquity to early modern times : rearranging the tesserae / edited by J. Carlos Iglesias-Zoido and Victoria Pineda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iglesias Zoido, Juan Carlos, editor.

Pineda, Victoria, editor.

Series:

International studies in the history of rhetoric ; Volume 7.

International Studies in the History of Rhetoric, 1875-1148 ; Volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--History.

Historiography.

Rhetoric--History.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (558 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2017.

Summary:

Anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books constitute a relatively little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre. From ancient times to the present day, the practice of culling characters’ orations from one or more works and publishing them independently of their original source has produced new and different ways of reading and using history. Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches offers an introduction to the very diverse questions that arise from the study of the genre through a variety of approaches and methodological tools. Lying at the point where rhetoric and historiography intersect, the essays included in this volume focus on the rhetorical aspects of the collections, as well as on their production, transmission, and reception from antiquity to the early modern period.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Old Words in New Books / Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido and Victoria Pineda

Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches in Antiquity / Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido

Historians’ Speeches in Rhetorical Education: Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Selection from Thucydides / Roberto Nicolai

Speeches of Historians and Historiographical Criticism: Timaeus’ Speeches in Polybius’ Book xii / José María Candau

The Speeches in Justin’s Corpusculum Florum: The Selection and Manipulation of Trogus’ Historiae Philippicae / Luis Ballesteros Pastor

A Word from the General: Ambrosianus B 119 sup. and Protreptic Speeches in Byzantine Military Manuals / Immacolata Eramo

A Medieval Anthology: Juan Fernández de Heredia’s Crónica Troyana / María Sanz Julián

The Byzantine Influence: Heredia’s Tucídides and the Contiones Thucydidis of Lapo da Castiglionchio / Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido

Speeches, Letters, and Chronicle: Fernando de Pulgar’s Anthology in manuscript 9–5173 Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid / Teresa Jiménez Calvente

Prefaces in Anthologies of Contiones / Joaquín Villalba Álvarez

Remigio Nannini’s Orationi Militari / Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido

Henri ii Estienne’s Conciones siue orationes ex Graecis Latinisque historicis excerptae / M. Violeta Pérez Custodio

François de Belleforest’s Harangues militaires / Victoria Pineda

Melchior Junius: Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches in the Teaching of Rhetoric / David Carmona

L’utilità che si caua d’un libro: The Culture of Compendia and the Reading of Contemporary Italian Warfare in Nannini’s Orationi militari / Carmen Peraita

Modern History in Nannini’s and Belleforest’s Anthologies / Xavier Tubau

Oratory and Political Debate in the Last Decades of the Roman Republic: Cassius Dio’s Reconstruction (with Some Notes from Remigio Nannini’s Orationi Militari) / Ida Gilda Mastrorosa

A Humanist History in the Italian Vernacular: The Speeches in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories / Robert D. Black

The Trésor des livres d’Amadis as an Anthology of Speeches / Florence Serrano

From Italy to Europe: Seventeenth Century Collections of Orationes Fictae / Valentina Nider

Appendix: Contiones. Printed Anthologies of Speeches (1471–1699) / Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido and Victoria Pineda

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34186-2

OCLC:

969981938

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004341869 DOI