Florin Leonte

Ethos, Logos, and Perspective

Studies in Late Byzantine Rhetoric

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book represents the first comprehensive study of late Byzantine court rhetorical praise as a general phenomenon surfacing in many types of rhetorical epideictic compositions dating from the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781032343365
• ISBN-10: 1032343362
• Artikelnr.: 66707199

Autorenporträt

Florin Leonte is Assistant Professor at Palacký University of Olomouc, Czech Republic, teaching in the Departments of Classics and History since 2017. Previously, he taught at Harvard University (2013-2015) and the Central European University (2009). He has held several research positions at Dumbarton Oaks Research Center, Washington DC; Villa I Tatti, Research Center, Florence; and the New Europe College in Bucharest. His first monograph titled Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple was published in 2020. Leonte's research primarily focuses on Byzantine rhetoric and society in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Chapter One. Late Byzantine Court Ethos: Contemplation and Action
2. Chapter Two. Epideictic Logos: Between Idealism and Pragmatism
3. Chapter Three. Encomiastic Perspectives at Work: Space and Territory in Isidore's Encomium for John VIII Palaiologos
4 Chapter Four. Beyond Praise: Didacticism and Epideictic Discourse in Joseph Bryennios' Forty-Nine Chapters (c. 1402)
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography