Rhetoric in Byzantium
Rhetoric in Byzantium
Papers from the Thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, University of Oxford, March 2001
Publié par:Jeffreys, Elizabeth
Contenu
This text explores the ways in which rhetoric functioned in Byzantine society - as a tool for the effective communication of ideas and ideologies, but at times also a barrier that inhibited the expression of real feelings and everyday realities, and imposed a burden of decoding on outsiders.
Informations bibliographiques
juin 2003, 294 pages, Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Anglais
Taylor and Francis
978-0-7546-3453-9