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Rhetoric in Byzantium: papers from the thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, University of Oxford, March 2001
2003, Ashgate
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RHETORIC IN BYZANTIUM; ED. BY. ELIZABETH M. JEFFREYS.
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Machine generated contents note: Elizabeth Jeffreys Introduction 1
Section I The uses of rhetoric
1. Martha Vinson Rhetoric and writing strategies in the ninth century 9
2. Charlotte Roueche The rhetoric of Kekaumenos 23
3. C.N. Constantinides Teachers and students of rhetoric in the late Byzantine period 39
4. Dimiter G. Angelov Byzantine imperial panegyric as advice literature (1204-c. 1350) 55
Section II Public uses of rhetoric
5. Wolfram Horandner Court poetry: questions of motifs, structure and function 75
6. Michael Jeffreys 'Rhetorical' texts 87
7. Mary Cunningham Dramatic device or didactic tool? The function of dialogue in Byzantine preaching 101
Section III Literature and rhetoric
8. Jakov Ljubarskij How should a Byzantine text be read? 117
9. Ruth Webb Praise and persuasion: argumentation and audience response in epideictic oratory 127
10. Erich Trapp The role of vocabulary in Byzantine rhetoric as a stylistic device 137
11. Margaret Mullett Rhetoric, theory and the imperative of performance: Byzantium and now 151
Section IV Rhetoric and historiography
12. Mary Whitby George of Pisidia and the persuasive word: words, words, words173
13. Catherine Holmes The rhetorical structures of Skylitzes' Synopsis Historion 187
14. Ruth Macrides George Akropolites' rhetoric 201
Section V Rhetoric and visual images
15. Henry Maguire Byzantine rhetoric, Latin drama and the portrayal of the New Testament 215
16. Robin Cormack 'Living painting' 235
17. Leslie Brubaker Text and picture in manuscripts: what's rhetoric got to do with it? 255.
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