Laurent Pernot is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Strasbourg, corresponding member of the Institut de France, and Immediate Past President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He has published extensively on the history of rhetoric, including Rhetoric in Antiquity (The Catholic University of America Press, 2006).

• Preface, Laurent PernotAcknowledgements PART I - RHETORIC IN HISTORY1. Theoretical IssuesL’histoire de la rhétorique dans l’Europe moderne, Marc FumaroliRhétoriques particulaires et rhétoriques ondulatoires, Sung-Gi JonAspects rhétoriques du discours historique, Donka AlexandrovaLa rhétorique du simulacrum: analogies historiques, Andreï RozhdestvenskiLa traducción como ejercicio retórico y gramatical, Francisco Chico Rico2. Greco-Roman AntiquityThe Power of Logos in Gorgias’ Encomium of Helen, Nam-Duh KimPainting or Writing Speeches? Plato, Alcidamas, and Isocrates on Logography, Marie-Pierre NoëlTransparency and Trust in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Harvey YunisLe discours du tribun Licinius Macer à la plèbe (Salluste, Histoires 3, 48 M = 3, 34 McGushin), Martine ChassignetCicero and the Sophists, Robert N. GainesCicerone allegorico: la metamorfosi del personaggio storico in paradigma dell’eloquenza romana, Gabriella MorettiDeklamationen und Geschichtsschreibung im 4. Jh. n. Chr., Gualtiero CalboliIncest in Roman Declamation, Bé BreijL’harmonie du savoir: du modèle rhétorique au modèle musical, Florence Malhomme3. Modern and Contemporary TimesThe History of Russian Rhetoric: Sources, Ideas, Authors, Vladimir I. AnnushkinLa rhétorique militaire en Russie, Tcheslav DaletskiHenri III rhéteur, nouvel Hercule gaulois, Claude La CharitéJean-Jacques Rousseau ou les figures prises-au-propre, Nanine Charbonnel The Merging of Civic Republicanism, Polite Culture, and Christianity in Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Arthur E. WalzerThe Rhetoric Against Rhetoric: The Avant-garde Manifesto, P. M. MehtonenPART II - RHETORIC AND RELIGION1. The Problematic of Religious DiscourseThe Rhetoric of Religion, Laurent PernotCaduta e ascesa di Religione e Retorica, Luigi SpinaLa parole, la foi et la beauté : la Grèce, Rome et le christianisme médiéval, Alain Michel Rhetoricians in Black: Benedictine Monks and Rhetorical Revival in Medieval Oxford, Martin CamargoOn Chinese Religious Rhetoric, Rudong ChenThe Expedient, the Honorable, and the Sacred: Rhetorical Topoi and the Religious Imperative, Michael Leff 2. Speaking of the Gods, Speaking to the GodsLes dieux chez les orateurs attiques, Michael EdwardsGottesurteil – Beweismittel – Stilfigur. Funktion und Stellenwert des Eides in der antiken Rhetorik, Manfred Kraus Le “discours sacré” (hieros logos) : une forme de rhétorique religieuse dans l’Antiquité grecque, Mina Tasseva L’influence de la légende bouddhique sur le roman de Barlaam et Josaphat : un cas de persuasion rhétorique et religieuse, Heon Kim3. How to Read the Bible Rhetorically?Rhétorique paulinienne et terminologie qoumrânienne, Marc PhilonenkoPourquoi un Traité de rhétorique biblique? Roland MeynetThe Rhetorical Dispositio of 1 Cor. 11, 2–16 and the Problem of the Veil, Sławomir TorbusArt oratoire et argumentation dans le Livre de Job, Velichko RumenchevScriptural Elocutio in Seventeenth-Century England, Lawrence D. Green4. Theory and Practice of PreachingLa importancia de la pronuntiatio en la Retórica eclesiástica (1576) de Fray Luis de Granada, Alfonso Martín Jiménez Bunyan’s Progress and Glanvill’s Stand: Narration and Stasis in Later Seventeenth-Century English Religious Discourse, Jameela Lares “No Proper Subject:” Religion and Eloquence in Modern Britain, Don Paul Abbott Homiletik und Rhetorik: Hermann Herings Predigtlehre, Gregor Kalivoda 5. Religion and Political Discourse“Theology of Liberation” and Its Tradition in Poland: the Church, Politics, and Rhetoric in 1981–1989, Jakub Z. LichańskiLa question des rapports entre l’Église et l’État dans la rhétorique parlementaire en Bulgarie, Lilia MetodievaNotes on Contributors Index of Authors and Texts (from antiquity to the present) Index of Scholars and Critics