Rhetoric in Byzantium - Papers from the Thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, University of Oxford, March 2001

Summary

This text explores the ways in which rhetoric functioned in Byzantine society - as a tool for the effective communication of ideas and ideologies, but at times also a barrier that inhibited the expression of real feelings and everyday realities, and imposed a burden of decoding on outsiders.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffreys Elizabeth
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Jeffreys (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2003
• EAN: 9780754634539
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-3453-9
• No. of pages: 294
• Weight: 700 g
• Series: Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; European History, HISTORY / World, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, HISTORY / Byzantine Empire, General & world history, CE period up to c 1500, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, General and world history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Byzantine Empire, BCE period – Protohistory, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc