New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric

New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric
Author: Laurent Pernot
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2009-09-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9047428471

This volume gathers over forty papers by leading scholars in the field of the history of rhetoric. It illustrates the current trends in this new area of research and offers a great richness of insights. The contributors are from fourteen different countries in Europe, America and Asia ; the majority of the papers are in English and French, some others in German, Italian, and Spanish. The texts and subjects covered include the Bible, Classical Antiquity, Medieval and Modern Europe, Chinese and Korean civilization, and the contemporary world. Word, speech, language and institutions are addressed from several points of view. One major topic, among many others, is Rhetoric and Religion.

Fray Luis de Granada

Fray Luis de Granada
Author: Antonio García del Moral
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Fray Luís de Granada y la Retórica

Fray Luís de Granada y la Retórica
Author: Manuel López Muñoz
Publisher: Universidad Almería
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9788482402468

Nacida para la decisión asamblearia, la Retórica fue derivando hacia la formulación de un conjunto de técnicas con las que convencer a los ciudadanos reunidos en asamblea. De este modo, lo que fue un discurso acerca de la persuasión se convirtió en la técnica de la persuasión por medio del discurso. En los procelosos tiempos de la Reforma y Contrarreforma, el dominico fray Luis de Granada va a redactar un conjunto de reflexiones sobre la Retórica Eclesiástica que encamina a la formación de buenos predicadores, pero que se insertan de forma natural en el decurso de la historia de la teoria literaria, de la oratoria y de la iglesia. Este ensayo ofrece un marco general sobre el que situar la aportación de fray Luis para, a continuación, entrar en el análisis de unos cuantos aspectos relevantes para una correcta comprensión de la doctrina retórica, estilística y pragmática de uno de los tratados más importantes del siglo XVI: la Retórica Eclesiástica o Modo de Predicar.

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian

The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian
Author: Marc van der Poel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2021-12-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191022888

M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century CE. After his retirement, he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in antiquity because it is both a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise. Quintilian's fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but also on the two collections of Declamations which were later attributed to him. The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to present Quintilian's Institutio as a key treatise in the history of Greco-Roman rhetoric and to trace its influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and education up to the present day. Topics include Quintilian's educational programme, his concepts and classifications of rhetoric, his discussion of the five canons of rhetoric, his style, his views on literary criticism, declamation, and the relationship between rhetoric and law, and the importance of the visual and performing arts in his work. His legacy is presented in successive chapters devoted to Quintilian in late antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, Northern Europe during the Renaissance, Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and the United States of America. Other chapters examine the biographical tradition, the history of printed editions, and modern assessments of Quintilian. The contributors represent a wide range of expertise and scholarly traditions, offering a unique, multidisciplinary perspective.

From Muslim to Christian Granada

From Muslim to Christian Granada
Author: A. Katie Harris
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007-03-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801891922

Honorable Mention, 2010 Best First Book, Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies In 1492, Granada, the last independent Muslim city on the Iberian Peninsula, fell to the Catholic forces of Ferdinand and Isabella. A century later, in 1595, treasure hunters unearthed some curious lead tablets inscribed in Arabic. The tablets documented the evangelization of Granada in the first century A.D. by St. Cecilio, the city’s first bishop. Granadinos greeted these curious documents, known as the plomos, and the human remains accompanying them as proof that their city—best known as the last outpost of Spanish Islam—was in truth Iberia’s most ancient Christian settlement. Critics, however, pointed to the documents’ questionable doctrinal content and historical anachronisms. In 1682, the pope condemned the plomos as forgeries. From Muslim to Christian Granada explores how the people of Granada created a new civic identity around these famous forgeries. Through an analysis of the sermons, ceremonies, histories, maps, and devotions that developed around the plomos, it examines the symbolic and mythological aspects of a new historical terrain upon which Granadinos located themselves and their city. Discussing the ways in which one local community’s collective identity was constructed and maintained, this work complements ongoing scholarship concerning the development of communal identities in modern Europe. Through its focus on the intersections of local religion and local identity, it offers new perspectives on the impact and implementation of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.

Journal of Neo-Latin Studies

Journal of Neo-Latin Studies
Author: Gilbert Tournoy
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2000
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9789058670885

Volume 49

Augustini Valerii De Rhetorica Ecclesiastica libri III

Augustini Valerii De Rhetorica Ecclesiastica libri III
Author: Manuel López-Muñoz
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004307966

Preaching is more than just speaking in public. The persuasion of people and the theory underlying it are precedents of modern propaganda. In his Rhetorica Ecclesiastica, Agostino Valier (1531-1606) outlines what a Catholic preacher should know before he is allowed to deliver his sermons. Closely related to Cardinal Charles Borromeo's entourage and to the directions emanating from the Council of Trent, this treatise was considered to be one of the most influential ones back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and soon became a must for seminaries all over the world. After introducing Valier and the editorial approach he used, Manuel López-Muñoz offers a critical edition of the text aiming to recover the treatise and make it available to modern scholars.

Transcending Textuality

Transcending Textuality
Author: Ariadna García-Bryce
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2016-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0271078901

In Transcending Textuality, Ariadna García-Bryce provides a fresh look at post-Trent political culture and Francisco de Quevedo’s place within it by examining his works in relation to two potentially rival means of transmitting authority: spectacle and print. Quevedo’s highly theatrical conceptions of power are identified with court ceremony, devotional ritual, monarchical and spiritual imagery, and religious and classical oratory. At the same time, his investment in physical and emotional display is shown to be fraught with concern about the decline of body-centered modes of propagating authority in the increasingly impersonalized world of print. Transcending Textuality shows that Quevedo’s poetics are, in great measure, defined by the attempt to retain in writing the qualities of live physical display.