Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • Chapter 2 - Philip IV’s Global Empire of Eloquence

  • Stuart M. McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Book:
    Empire of Eloquence
    Published online:
    09 April 2021
    Print publication:
    08 April 2021, pp 51-111

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 argues for the pivotal role of humanist rhetoric and oratory in shaping and disseminating the political ideology of the global Hispanic Monarchy. Rather than taking a protonation state like Mexico or Peru as the unit of analysis, this chapter considers all the surviving funeral orations for Philip IV (1605–1665) in Spanish America, Iberian Asia, the Iberian Peninsula, Spanish North Africa, Spanish Italy and the Spanish Netherlands. These panegyrics are highly revealing of the political ideology espoused in each of these contexts. Grounded in epideictic rhetoric, which channeled a long-standing humanist commitment to a virtue-driven model of kingship, these orations offered absolute standards for imitation by the elite in the person of the king (“virtue politics”). This was a political ideology that left space for institutionalized resistance or “negotiation” in the face of unjust local officials who could be measured according to these standards, and held accountable by petitions to the king, the ultimate source of justice.