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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Stuart M. McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9781108830164ISBN 10: 1108830161 Pages: 316 Publication Date: 08 April 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: An Empire of Eloquence in a Global Renaissance; 1. The Foundations of the Empire of Eloquence; 2. Philip IV's Global Empire of Eloquence; 3. A Japanese Cicero Redivivus; 4. Indo-Humanist Eloquence; 5. Centers, Peripheries and Identities in the Empire of Eloquence; 6. The Republic of Eloquence; Bibliography; Index.Reviews'There can be little question that the author has succeeded in illustrating the many ways in which a meta-geographical study such as this one can add to our understanding of how a cultural phenomenon such as classical rhetoric was once able to span the globe … The volume concludes with a list of archives visited, as well as an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources that will certainly be of great value to anyone who wishes to pursue this subject further.' Carl P. E. Springer, Neo-Latin News 'There can be little question that the author has succeeded in illustrating the many ways in which a meta-geographical study such as this one can add to our understanding of how a cultural phenomenon such as classical rhetoric was once able to span the globe ... The volume concludes with a list of archives visited, as well as an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources that will certainly be of great value to anyone who wishes to pursue this subject further.' Carl P. E. Springer, Neo-Latin News Author InformationStuart M. McManus is Assistant Professor of World History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and an Affiliated Scholar of the Faculty of Law's Center for Transnational and Comparative Law. His published work ranges widely across Hispanic and global history from antiquity to the present, and has been supported by prestigious fellowships from Princeton, Brown, Yale and the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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