Rhetoric in Byzantium

Elizabeth Jeffreys is Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford University, UK

• Contents: Introduction, Elizabeth Jeffreys; The uses of rhetoric: Rhetoric and writing strategies in the 9th century, Martha Vinson; The rhetoric of Kekaumenos, Charlotte Roueché; Teachers and students of rhetoric in the late Byzantine period, C.N. Constantinides; Byzantine imperial panegyric as advice literature (1204-ca. 1350), Dimiter Angelov, Public uses of rhetoric: Court poetry: questions of motifs, structure and function, Wolfram Hörandner; 'Rhetorical' texts, Michael Jeffreys; Dramatic device or didactic tool? The function of dialogue in Byzantine preaching, Mary Cunningham; Literature and rhetoric: How should a Byzantine text be read?, Jakov Ljubarskij; Praise and persuasion: argumentation and audience response in epideictic oratory, Ruth Webb; The role of vocabulary in Byzantine rhetoric as a stylistic device, Erich Trapp; Rhetoric, theory and the imperative of performance: Byzantium and now, Margaret Mullett; Rhetoric and historiography: George of Pisidia and the persuasive word: words, words, words, ... , Mary Whitby; The rhetorical structures of Skylitzes' Synopsis Historion, Catherine Holmes; George Akropolites' rhetoric, Ruth Macrides; Rhetoric and visual images: Byzantine rhetoric, Latin drama and the portrayal of the New Testament, Henry Maguire; 'Living painting', Robin Cormack; Text and picture in manuscripts: what's rhetoric got to do with it?, Leslie Brubaker; Index.

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