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  3. The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 September 2019
      26 September 2019
      ISBN:
      9781139811941
      9781107038134
      9781108725477
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139811941
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 290 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (115)
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (115)
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    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.

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