Empire of Eloquence - The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World

List of contents

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: An Empire of Eloquence in a Global Renaissance; 1. The Foundations of the Empire of Eloquence; 2. Philip IV's Global Empire of Eloquence; 3. A Japanese Cicero Redivivus; 4. Indo-Humanist Eloquence; 5. Centers, Peripheries and Identities in the Empire of Eloquence; 6. The Republic of Eloquence; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Stuart M. McManus is Assistant Professor of World History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and an Affiliated Scholar of the Faculty of Law's Center for Transnational and Comparative Law. His published work ranges widely across Hispanic and global history from antiquity to the present, and has been supported by prestigious fellowships from Princeton, Brown, Yale and the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago.

Summary

An exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberian global expansion in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

Foreword

This exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world places the renaissance revival of letters within a global context.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart M. Mcmanus
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2024
• EAN: 9781108821735
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82173-5
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 459 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Portugal, Latin America, Spain, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & cultural history, General & world history, Social and cultural history, Empires & historical states, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Spanish Empire, Portuguese Empire