Book contents
- Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond
- Frontispiece
- Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Books, Readers and Reading
- Part I Love for the Written Word
- Part II Contact with a Living Culture
- The Power of Rhetoric
- Religious Texts
- Secular Texts
- Part III Communication and Influence
- Part IV Modern Reading as Textual Archaeology
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
The Power of Rhetoric
from Part II - Contact with a Living Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2018
Book contents
- Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond
- Frontispiece
- Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction to Books, Readers and Reading
- Part I Love for the Written Word
- Part II Contact with a Living Culture
- The Power of Rhetoric
- Religious Texts
- Secular Texts
- Part III Communication and Influence
- Part IV Modern Reading as Textual Archaeology
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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- Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond , pp. 157 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
References
Further Reading
The key source is: Walz, C., ed., ‘Ἐξήγησις εἰς τὰς Ἰδέας τοῦ Ἑρμογένους ἀπὸ φωνῆς Ἰωάννου φιλοσόφου τοῦ Σικελιώτου’ in Rhetores graeci ex codicibus Florentinis, Mediolanensibus, Monacensibus, Neapolitanis, Parisiensibus, Romanis, Venetis, Taurinensibus et Vindobonensibus (Stuttgart, 1834), vol. vi, 56–504. Relevant studies include: T. M. Conley, ‘Demosthenes Dethroned: Gregory Nazianzus in Sikeliotes’ Scholia on Hermogenes’ Περὶ Ἰδεῶν’, ICS, 27/28 (2002–3), 145–52; G. Kustas, Studies in Byzantine Rhetoric (Thessalonike, 1973); P. Roilos, Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-century Medieval Greek Novel (Cambridge, MA, 2005) and ‘Phantasia and the Ethics of Fictionality in Byzantium: A Cognitive Anthropological Perspective’ in P. Roilos, ed., Medieval Greek Storytelling: Fictionality and Narrative in Byzantium (Wiesbaden, 2014), 9–30.Google Scholar
Further Reading
The key primary source is: Flusin, B. and Cheynet, J.-C., trans., Jean Skylitzès. Empereurs de Constantinople (Paris, 2003). Relevant studies include: C. Roueché, ‘The Rhetoric of Kekaumenos’ in E. M. Jeffreys, ed., Rhetoric in Byzantium (Aldershot, 2003), 23–37; E. M. Jeffreys, ‘Rhetoric in Byzantium’ in I. Worthington, ed., A Companion to Greek Rhetoric (Oxford, 2007), 166–84; M. J. Jeffreys, ‘Psellos and “His Emperors”: Fact, Fiction and Genre’ in R. Macrides, ed., History as Literature in Byzantium (Farnham, 2010), 73–91; J. Shepard, ‘A Suspected Source of Scylitzes’ Synopsis Historion: the Great Catacalon Cecaumenus’, BMGS, 16 (1992), 171–81.Google Scholar
Further Reading
Key studies include: Alexander, J. C., ‘Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance Between Ritual and Strategy’ in Alexander, J. C., Giesen, B. and Mast, J. L., eds., Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual (Cambridge, 2006), 29–90; E. C. Bourbouhakis, ‘Rhetoric and Performance’ in P. Stephenson, The Byzantine World (London, 2010), 175–87 and E. C. Bourbouhakis, ‘The End of ἐπίδειξις. Authorial Identity and Authorial Intention in Michael Choniates’ Πρὸς τοὺς αἰτιωμένους τὸ ἀφιλένδεικτον’ in A. Pizzone, ed., The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature. Modes, Functions, Identities (Berlin, 2014), 201–24; N. Gaul, ‘The Letter in the Theatron: Epistolary Voice, Character, Soul and their Audience’ in A. Riehle, ed., A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography (Leiden, forthcoming); I. Toth, ‘Rhetorical Theatron in Late Byzantium: the Example of Palaiologan Imperial Orations’ in M. Grünbart, ed., Theatron: Rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter (Berlin, 2007), 429–48.Google Scholar