Rhetoric in Byzantium papers from the thirty-fifth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Exeter College, University of Oxford, March 2001 edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rhetoric and writing strategies in the ninth century / Martha Vinson The rhetoric of Kekaumenos / Charlotte Rouche Teachers and students of rhetoric in the late Byzantine period / C.N Constantinides Byzantine imperial panegyric as advice literature (1204-c.1350) / Dimiter G. Angelov Court Poetry: questions of motifs, structure and function / Wolfram Horander 'Rhetorical Texts' / Michael Jeffreys Dramatic device or didactic tool? The function of dialogue in Byzantine preaching / Mary Cunningham How should a Byzantine text be read? / Jakov Ljubarskij Praise and persuasion: argumentation and audience response in epideictic oratory / Ruth Webb The role of vocabulary in Byzantine rhetoric as a stylistic device / Erich Trapp Rhetoric, theory and the imperative of performance: Byzantium and now / Margaret Mullett George of Pisidia and the persuasive word: words, words, words ... / Mary Whitby The rhetorical structures of Skylitzes' Synopsis Historion / Catherine Holmes George Akropolites' rhetoric / Ruth Macrides Byzantine rhetoric, Latin drama and the portrayal of the New Testament / Henry Macguire 'Living Painting' / Robin Cormack Text and picture in manuscripts: what's rhetoric got to do with it? / Leslie Brubaker