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Author McManus, Stuart M., 1986- author.

Title Empire of eloquence : the classical rhetorical tradition in colonial Latin America and the Iberian world / Stuart M. McManus
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Ideas in context
Ideas in context.
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: An Empire of Eloquence in a Global Renaissance -- Cultural History: Building Empires -- Intellectual History: A Treasure-Trove of Ideas -- Historical Meta-Geography: Defining the Iberian World -- The Classical Rhetorical Tradition -- Chapter Outlines -- Chapter 1 The Foundations of the Empire of Eloquence -- Humanism in Renaissance Iberia -- Rhetoric across the Pre-/Post-conquest Divide
Rhetorical Theory and Practice in the Iberian World -- The ''Nuts and Bolts'' of the Classical Rhetorical Tradition -- Looking Out at the Iberian World from Mexico City -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Philip IV's Global Empire of Eloquence -- Late Humanism in the Hispanic Monarchy -- ''Virtue Politics'' and Good Government in Royal Exequias -- Neo-stoicism and Anti-Machiavellian ''Virtue Politics'' -- Lineage, Education and Virtue Politics -- Virtue Politics As a Technology of ''Negotiation'' -- The Language of Virtue beyond the Exequias -- Colonialism and the Limits of ''Virtue Politics''
''Virtue Politics'' in the Indigenous Republic -- Virtue Politics and Non-imperial Spaces -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 A Japanese Cicero Redivivus -- Humanism at the Arima Seminary -- Humanism on Deck -- Humanist Education in Renaissance Japan -- Jesuit Eloquence in Europe -- Homeward Bound -- Jesuit Eloquence in East Asian Languages -- Jesuit Eloquence in Early Modern China -- Christian Japan and the Iberian World -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Indo-Humanist Eloquence -- Evangelization and Indo-Humanist Grammar in Goa and Salcete -- How a Jesuit Missionary Read His Mahabharata
Konkani Sacred Oratory -- ''Orators in the Audience'': Connecting Caste and Erudition -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Centers, Peripheries and Identities in the Empire of Eloquence -- The Making of a Late Humanist Orator -- Tradition and Innovation in Campos' 1745 Oration -- Prosopopoeia and Patriotism -- Defining Citizenship in the ''Mexican'' Branch of the Republic of Letters -- The Meta-Geography of the Mexicani -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Republic of Eloquence -- Defining ''Post-Humanism'' -- ''Post-Humanist'' Eloquence in the Hispanic Economic Societies
Neoclassicism and Republican Nationalism in the September Orations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Mexico -- Peru -- Chile -- United States of America -- Spain -- Portugal -- Italy -- India -- Philippines -- Japan -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index
Summary Across the Hispanic Monarchy (the patchwork global polity often erroneously referred to as the "Spanish Empire") rhetoric was taught in colleges and universities. This, in turn, influenced the secular and sacred public speaking that resounded in churches, cathedrals, gubernatorial palaces, plazas and university halls, through which orators sought to unite listeners in the pursuit of shared societal goals. At the same time, classicizing rhetoric and oratory did more than just follow the flag. They also spilled out into areas which were not under the direct control of any Iberian monarch, but were touched by the outward migration of Iberian merchants and missionaries. Black-robed Jesuit humanists carried the classical rhetorical tradition with them to Japan and China as tools to evangelize and instruct native populations, while native Christians also quickly embraced the tradition to bolster their newfound faith. All this had the effect that the classical rhetorical tradition, as part of what we might call a "Global Renaissance," became one of the first intellectual currents to traverse the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, where it contributed in tangible ways to the stability and longevity of the patchwork of societies that made up the Iberian World. The classical rhetorical tradition, Empire of Eloquence argues, contributed to the ideological coherence and equilibrium of the early modern Iberian World, providing important occasions for persuasion, legitimation and eventual (and perhaps inevitable) confrontation."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2016
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 16, 2021)
Subject Rhetoric, Ancient -- Study and teaching -- Spain -- History
Rhetoric, Ancient -- Study and teaching -- Latin America -- History
Latin philology -- Study and teaching -- Spain -- History
Latin philology -- Study and teaching -- Latin America -- History
Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Rhetoric
Latin language -- Church Latin -- Rhetoric
Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Intellectual life
Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Rhetoric
Latin philology -- Study and teaching
Rhetoric, Ancient -- Study and teaching
Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Spanish colonies
SUBJECT Spain -- Colonies -- History
Spain -- Intellectual life -- History
Subject Latin America
Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020043222
ISBN 9781108909181
1108909183
1108905951
9781108905954