Rhetoric in Byzantium [Texte imprimé] : papers from the thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, University of Oxford, March 2001 / edited by Elizabeth 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