Jesuit Rhetoric Across Space and Time

Local and Global Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74450-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 534 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Jesuit Studies

A product of Renaissance educational thought, Jesuit rhetoric has trained generations of churchmen and lay citizens right up to the present day. This book aims to show the wealth of current international research on Jesuit rhetoric, in its pedagogical dimension (from sixteenth-century manuals to today's university writing courses), its practical implementation (in speeches, music or theology). These dialogues span both religious contexts—engagements with Protestants, Jews, Orthodox Christians, and Dominicans—and geographical ones, including encounters between Europe and regions such as Sri Lanka, China, and Japan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gannett, Cinthia

Brereton, John

Krauss, Manfred

Wright, Elizabethada

Awianowicz, Bartosz

Weitere Mitwirkende

Conte, Sophie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Sophie Conte, Ph.D. (2000), Université Paris Sorbonne, is Full Professor of Latin in the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France. She has published many articles on rhetoric, and edited Nicolas Caussin: rhétorique et spiritualité à l’époque de Louis XIII (Berlin, 2007).

Cinthia Gannett, Ph.D. (1987), University of New Hampshire, is English Professor (Emerita) at Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT U.S.A). She is co-editor, with John C. Brereton, ofTraditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies (Fordham University Press, 2016) and author of several other articles on Jesuit rhetorical history in the United States.

Bartosz Awianowicz, Ph.D. (2007), Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland), is Professor of Classical Literature. He has published monographs and papers on ancient and early modern rhetoric, poetry, and numismatics, including bilingual editions of Cicero’s De oratore (2010) and as co-author Monita privata (secreta) Societatis Iesu (2025).

John C. Brereton (1943-2023), was Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston, U.S.A. He has published widely on the history of rhetorical studies in America, including The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925 (1996).

Manfred Kraus is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Rhetoric at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany. He has published widely on the history and theory of rhetoric of all periods, the theory of argumentation, Greek philosophy, Byzantine and Renaissance studies, and Jesuit studies.

Elizabethada A. Wright, PhD in Communication and Rhetoric (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), is professor in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies at University of Minnesota Duluth, U.S.A. She and Christina R. Pinkston co-edited Catholic Women’s Rhetoric: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance (2022).