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Empire of Eloquence : The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Empire of Eloquence in a Global Renaissance -- Cultural History: Building Empires -- Intellectual History: A T...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2021
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| Series: | Ideas in Context Ser
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6531617 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Empire of Eloquence in a Global Renaissance -- Cultural History: Building Empires -- Intellectual History: A Treasure-Trove of Ideas -- Historical Meta-Geography: Defining the Iberian World -- The Classical Rhetorical Tradition -- Chapter Outlines -- Chapter 1 The Foundations of the Empire of Eloquence -- Humanism in Renaissance Iberia -- Rhetoric across the Pre-/Post-conquest Divide -- Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the Iberian World -- The ''Nuts and Bolts'' of the Classical Rhetorical Tradition -- Looking Out at the Iberian World from Mexico City -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Philip IV's Global Empire of Eloquence -- Late Humanism in the Hispanic Monarchy -- ''Virtue Politics'' and Good Government in Royal Exequias -- Neo-stoicism and Anti-Machiavellian ''Virtue Politics'' -- Lineage, Education and Virtue Politics -- Virtue Politics As a Technology of ''Negotiation'' -- The Language of Virtue beyond the Exequias -- Colonialism and the Limits of ''Virtue Politics'' -- ''Virtue Politics'' in the Indigenous Republic -- Virtue Politics and Non-imperial Spaces -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 A Japanese Cicero Redivivus -- Humanism at the Arima Seminary -- Humanism on Deck -- Humanist Education in Renaissance Japan -- Jesuit Eloquence in Europe -- Homeward Bound -- Jesuit Eloquence in East Asian Languages -- Jesuit Eloquence in Early Modern China -- Christian Japan and the Iberian World -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Indo-Humanist Eloquence -- Evangelization and Indo-Humanist Grammar in Goa and Salcete -- How a Jesuit Missionary Read His Mahabharata -- Konkani Sacred Oratory -- ''Orators in the Audience'': Connecting Caste and Erudition -- Conclusion. Chapter 5 Centers, Peripheries and Identities in the Empire of Eloquence -- The Making of a Late Humanist Orator -- Tradition and Innovation in Campos' 1745 Oration -- Prosopopoeia and Patriotism -- Defining Citizenship in the ''Mexican'' Branch of the Republic of Letters -- The Meta-Geography of the Mexicani -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Republic of Eloquence -- Defining ''Post-Humanism'' -- ''Post-Humanist'' Eloquence in the Hispanic Economic Societies -- Neoclassicism and Republican Nationalism in the September Orations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Mexico -- Peru -- Chile -- United States of America -- Spain -- Portugal -- Italy -- India -- Philippines -- Japan -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index. This exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world places the renaissance revival of letters within a global context |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (316 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108905954 |
