The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Irene van Renswoude (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

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English

Cambridge University Press
03 June 2021

European history; Social & cultural history; Oral history; Political ideologies

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series

The early Middle Ages is not a period traditionally associated with free speech. It is still widely held that free speech declined towards the end of Antiquity, disappearing completely at the beginning of the Middle Ages, and only re-emerging in the Renaissance, when people finally learned to think and speak for themselves again. Challenging this tenacious image, Irene van Renswoude reveals that there was room for political criticism and dissent in this period, as long as critics employed the right rhetoric and adhered to scripted roles. This study of the rhetoric of free speech from c.200 to c.900 AD explores the cultural rules and rhetorical performances that shaped practices of delivering criticism from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, examining the rhetorical strategies of letters and narratives in the late antique and early medieval men, and a few women, who ventured to speak the truth to the powerful.

By: Irene van Renswoude (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781108725477
ISBN 10: 1108725473
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Pages: 289
Publication Date: 03 June 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Part I: 1. The steadfast martyr; 2. Hilary of Poitiers; 3. The detached philosopher; 4. Ambrose of Milan; 5. The silent ascetic; Part II: 6. The frank holy man; 7. Gregory of Tours; 8. The wise adviser; 9. Agobard of Lyon; 10. Pope Gregory; Epilogue.

Irene van Renswoude is Professor of Medieval Manuscripts and Cultural History at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and researcher at Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded the Heineken Young Scientist Award for History in 2014 for her research on free speech and censorship, and is a member of the editorial board of Medieval Worlds and the Journal for the History of Knowledge. She is the co-editor of several volumes, including Strategies of Writing: Studies on Texts and Trust in the Middle Ages (2008) and The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages (2018).