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9781474441032

Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple

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  • ISBN13:

    9781474441032

  • ISBN10:

    1474441033

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2019-12-01
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Summary

Manuel II Palaiologos was not only a Byzantine emperor but also a remarkably prolific rhetorician and theologian. His oeuvre included letters, treatises, dialogues, short poems and orations.

Florin Leonte deals with several of his texts shaped by a didactic intention to educate the emperor's son and successor, John VIII Palaiologos. He argues that the emperor constructed a rhetorical persona which he used in an attempt to compete with other contemporary power-brokers. While Manuel Palaiologos adhered to many rhetorical conventions of his day, he also reasserted the civic role of rhetoric.

With a special focus on the first two decades of Manuel II Palaiologos' rule, 1391-1417, Leonte offers a new understanding of the imperial ethos in Byzantium by combining rhetorical analysis with investigation of social and political phenomena.

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