Universities were among the most consequential institutions of the later middle ages, but in their formative years their success was threatened by the vehement critiques …
Athens in the fourth century BCE faced many economic and military pressures, to which the Athenians responded with a multitude of political experiments. This dissertation …
Studies of Dante’s rhetoric and of Dante’s construction of his rhetorical authority in the Commedia have tended to follow one of two directions, either focusing …
This dissertation answers the question of what it means for an outstanding representative of the long Second Sophistic to have decisively shaped Christian festival rhetoric. …
The poem “Grandeza mexicana” (1604) by Bernardo de Balbuena (c. 1562-1627) is one of the main components of the pantheon of cultural artifacts that defines …