Empire of Eloquence

The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World

AvStuart M. McManus

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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The global reach of the Spanish and Portuguese empires prompted a remarkable flourishing of the classical rhetorical tradition in various parts of the early modern world. Empire of Eloquence is the first study to examine this tradition as part of a wider global renaissance in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa, with a particular focus on the Iberian world. Spanning the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, the book argues that the classical rhetorical tradition contributed to the ideological coherence and equilibrium of this early modern Iberian world, providing important occasions for persuasion, legitimation and eventual (and perhaps inevitable) confrontation. Drawing on archival collections in thirteen countries, Stuart M. McManus places these developments in the context of civic, religious and institutional rituals attended by the multi-ethnic population of the Iberian world and beyond, and shows how they influenced public speaking in non-European languages, such as Konkani and Chinese.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-23
Mått:151 x 228 x 15 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ideas in Context
Antal sidor:316
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108821735

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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.

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'There can be little question that the author has succeeded in illustrating the many ways in which a meta-geographical study such as this one can add to our understanding of how a cultural phenomenon such as classical rhetoric was once able to span the globe … The volume concludes with a list of archives visited, as well as an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources that will certainly be of great value to anyone who wishes to pursue this subject further.' Carl P. E. Springer, Neo-Latin News

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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.