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Moral lessons in late Byzantium: rhetorical models and didacticism in Joseph Bryennios’ Forty-Nine Chapters (c. 1402)
- Source :
- Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 43:219-242
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019.
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Abstract
- This article examines Joseph Bryennios’ Forty-Nine Chapters, a text that has been hitherto explored mostly for the information on social practices in late Byzantium. The analysis of the text's rhetorical techniques indicates that Bryennios departed significantly from other contemporary collections of kephalaia which relied on the inherited wisdom of gnomologia. I argue that the pervasiveness of figurative language and vivid analogies in the Forty-Nine Chapters shaped his specific didacticism and unveiled the author's acquaintance with the technique of rhetorical amplification.
- Subjects :
- Cultural Studies
Literature
Linguistics and Language
History
060103 classics
Literature and Literary Theory
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Bryennios
06 humanities and the arts
Art
Language and Linguistics
060104 history
Rhetorical question
0601 history and archaeology
Forty Nine
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Didacticism
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Details
- ISSN :
- 1749625X and 03070131
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........546cae2e1f41027d9cc84c1dde75fc5b