Rhetoric in Byzantium - Papers from the Thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, University of Oxford, March 2001 (Hardcover, New edition)

'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.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
Release date:	June 2003
First published:	2003
Editors:	Elizabeth Jeffreys
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	294
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-3453-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Promotions
LSN:	0-7546-3453-1
Barcode:	9780754634539

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