Aelius Aristeides
Andronikos II
Anna Komnene
Anna Komnene's Alexiad
Anna Komnene’s Alexiad
byzantine
Byzantine literature
Byzantine Rhetoric
Byzantine Students
C.N. Constantinides
Captatio Benevolentiae
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Catherine Holmes
Charlotte Roueche
Constantine Porphyrogennetos
Dimiter G. Angelov
ecclesiastical communication
epideictic oratory
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Erich Trapp
George Akropolites
Henry Maguire
historiographical analysis
imperial ceremonial discourse
Imperial Oration
Jakov Ljubarskij
John III
Leo VI
Leslie Brubaker
manuscript visual culture
Margaret Mullett
Martha Vinson
Mary Cunningham
Mary Whitby
Maximos Planoudes
Menander Rhetor
Michael Jeffreys
Michael Palaiologos
Michael VIII
Nikephoros Basilakes
Nikephoros Blemmydes
Niketas Choniates
rhetorical strategies in medieval texts
Robin Cormack
Ruth Macrides
Ruth Webb
Theodore II
Theodore II Laskaris
Theodore Prodromos
Wolfram Horandner
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754634539
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jun 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'Rhetoric in Byzantium' explores the ways in which rhetoric functioned in Byzantine society - as a tool for the effective communication of ideas and ideologies, but at times also a barrier that inhibited the expression of real feelings and everyday realities, and imposed a burden of decoding on outsiders. After an introduction on the practical and textual background to Byzantine rhetoric, the essays are grouped in five sections. The first two deal with the basis of rhetoric in Byzantium and its public uses, principally in imperial and ecclesiastical ceremonial. The next sections look at how rhetoric affects the definition of literature in a Byzantine context and the aesthetic to be used in approaching Byzantine literature, with reference to current critical approaches, and specifically at the role of rhetoric in the writing of history - does it only obscure the facts, or does the rhetorical process itself provide information at other levels? The final essays examine the interaction of the written word and pictorial representation and the question of whether real connections between rhetorical training and artistic production can be demonstrated.
Elizabeth Jeffreys is Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford University, UK
