Irene van Renswoude

The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781107038134
• ISBN-10: 1107038138
• Artikelnr.: 56264014

Autorenporträt

Irene van Renswoude is Professor of Medieval Manuscripts and Cultural History at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and researcher at Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded the Heineken Young Scientist Award for History in 2014 for her research on free speech and censorship, and is a member of the editorial board of Medieval Worlds and the Journal for the History of Knowledge. She is the co-editor of several volumes, including Strategies of Writing: Studies on Texts and Trust in the Middle Ages (2008) and The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: 1. The steadfast martyr
2. Hilary of Poitiers
3. The detached philosopher
4. Ambrose of Milan
5. The silent ascetic
Part II: 6. The frank holy man
7. Gregory of Tours
8. The wise adviser
9. Agobard of Lyon
10. Pope Gregory
Epilogue.