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The Narrative Setting of Historiographical Speeches
Classical Antiquity and the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
Series: - International Studies in the History of Rhetoric, Volume: 19
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The ânarrative settingsâ are one of the most important yet least studied aspects of Classical historiography. Greek and Romans historians resorted systematically to this device to embed speeches and harmonize them with the narration in their works. The speechâs setting allowed a historian to comment on its content, script its delivery, and condition the readerâs responseâall while providing fertile ground for intertextuality and allusion. The chapters reunited in this volume track its origin and evolution from Thucydides to the medieval and early modern historiography of the Iberian world. As a result, the book illuminates the functions, structure, and unwritten rules of one of the most powerful and enduring, if elusive, devices of the European historiographical tradition.
Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido, Ph.D (1992), teaches Classics at University of Extremadura. Previous publications on historiographical speeches include El legado de TucÃdides en la Cultura Occidental (Coimbra, 2011) and (co-edited with V. Pineda) Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches from Antiquity to Early Modern Times (Leiden, 2017).
Contributors are Luis Ballesteros Pastor, Jesús Bartolomé, David Carmona, Paulo Donoso Johnson, Immacolata Eramo, LuÃs Miguel Ferreira Henriques, Francisco GarcÃa Fitz, Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido, Roberto Nicolai, Victoria Pineda, Maurizio Ravallese, JoaquÃn Villalba.
Contributors are Luis Ballesteros Pastor, Jesús Bartolomé, David Carmona, Paulo Donoso Johnson, Immacolata Eramo, LuÃs Miguel Ferreira Henriques, Francisco GarcÃa Fitz, Juan Carlos Iglesias-Zoido, Roberto Nicolai, Victoria Pineda, Maurizio Ravallese, JoaquÃn Villalba.
All interested in rhetoric (ancient, medieval and modern), historiography (ancient, medieval and modern), classical studies, the classical tradition, hispanic and iberian studies, and cultural history.