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At the intersection of rhetoric, historiography, and the history of reading,
Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches offers an introduction to a little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre: the anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books from antiquity to the early modern period.
About the author
J. C. Iglesias-Zoido, Ph.D. (1992), teaches Classical Philology at the University of Extremadura. Previous publications on Thucydides and historiographical speeches include
Retórica e historiografía (Madrid, 2008) and
El legado de Tucídides en la cultura occidental (Coimbra, 2011).
Victoria Pineda, Ph.D. (1993), University of Michigan, teaches Comparative Literature at Universidad de Extremadura. Her most recent publications include a book on Luis Cernuda's ekphrastic poems (Barcelona, 2017) and a critical edition of Lope de Vega's
Los Prados de León (Madrid, 2017).
Contributors are: Luis Ballesteros Pastor, Robert D. Black, José María Candau, David Carmona, Immacolata Eramo, Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido, M. Teresa Jiménez Calvente, Ida Gilda Mastrorosa, Roberto Nicolai, Valentina Nider, Carmen Peraita, M. Violeta Pérez Custodio, Victoria Pineda, María Sanz Julián, Florence Serrano, Xavier Tubau, and Joaquín Villalba Álvarez.
