Jesuit Rhetoric across Space and Time
Local and Global Perspectives
Will be published approx. on 18. December 2025
Book
Hardback
534 pages
978-90-04-74450-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-74450-9 (9789004744509)
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Sophie Conte, PhD (2000), Universite Paris Sorbonne, is Full Professor of Latin in the Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France. She has published many articles on rhetoric, and edited Nicolas Caussin: rhetorique et spiritualite a l'epoque de Louis XIII (Berlin, 2007).
Cinthia Gannett, PhD (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.
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-Universitaet Tuebingen, 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).
Bartosz Awianowicz, PhD (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).
Cinthia Gannett, PhD (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.
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-Universitaet Tuebingen, 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).
Bartosz Awianowicz, PhD (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).