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The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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The early Middle Ages is not a period traditionally associated with
free speech. It is still widely held that free speech declined
towards the end of Antiquity, disappearing completely at the
beginning of the Middle Ages, and only re-emerging in the
Renaissance, when people finally learned to think and speak for
themselves again. Challenging this tenacious image, Irene van
Renswoude reveals that there was room for political criticism and
dissent in this period, as long as critics employed the right
rhetoric and adhered to scripted roles. This study of the rhetoric
of free speech from c.200 to c.900 AD explores the cultural rules
and rhetorical performances that shaped practices of delivering
criticism from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, examining the
rhetorical strategies of letters and narratives in the late antique
and early medieval men, and a few women, who ventured to speak the
truth to the powerful.
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