Fidem tene, verba seqVentVr. Rhetoric and Oratory in the Historia Ecclesiastica of Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen
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Published
15-09-2015
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
Abstract
This paper will explore how the Church historians Socrates and Sozomen interpreted the learning and practice of oratory and of rhetoric in their portraits of Christian figures in their historical accounts of events of the post-Constantinian Church. Their understanding of the impact and role of these disciplines was not only a subject of literary criticism but it was inserted in a complex rationale that understood that the use and misuse of the practice of rhetoric and oratory functioned as a religious and an identity marker throughout the fourth and fifth centuries AD.
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Goffman, E. 1971, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, London: Penguin.
Grillet, B., Sabbah, G. and Festugière, A.-J., 1983-2008, Sozomen. Histoire Ecclésiastique, Paris: Du Cerf.
Hägg, T., 2006, «Gregory of Nazianzus: A new Lease of Life for the Second Sophistic», in: S. Eklund (ed.), Sunkharmata: Studies in Honour of Jan Fredrik Kindstrand, Uppsala: Uppsala University, 113-127.
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Hoof, L. van, 2013, «Performing Paideia: Greek Culture as an Instrument for Social promotion in the Fourth Century AD», CQ 63.1, 387-406.
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Nuffelen, P. van, 2012, Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nuffelen, P. van, 2014a, «The End of Open Competition? Religious Disputations in Late Antiquity», in: D. Engels and P. Van Nuffelen (eds.), Religion and Competition in Antiquity, Brussels: Latomus, 149-172.
Nuffelen, P. van, 2014b, « A war of words. Sermons and social status in Constantinople under the Theodosian dynasty», in: L. van Hoof and P. van Nuffelen (eds.), Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD. Performing paideia, constructing the present, presenting the self, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 201-217.
Périchon, P. and Maraval, P., 2004-2007, Socrates. Histoire Ecclésiastique, Paris: Du Cerf.
Pernot, L., 1993, La rhétorique de l'éloge dans le monde gréco-romain, Paris: Institute d'études augustiniennes.
Pernot, L., 2000, La rhétorique dans l' Antiquité, Paris: Poche.
Spuntarelli, C., 2012, Oratore Divino. Linguaggio e rappresentazione retorica nella controversia tra Cappadoci e Anomei, Roma: Istituto Patristico Augustinianum.
Schamp, J., 2006, «Sophistes à l'ambon, esquisses pour la Troisième Sophistique comme paysage littéraire», in: E. Amato (ed.), Approches de la troisième sophistique: hommages à Jacques Schamp, Brussels: Latomus, 286-338.
Urbainczyk, T., 1997a, Socrates of Constantinople: historian of Church and State, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Urbainczyk, T., 1997b, «Observations on the Differences between the Church Histories of Socrates and Sozomen», ZAG 46.3, 355-373.
Vasiliu, A., 2012, Images de soi dans l' Antiquité Tardive, Paris: Vrin.
Vogt, H. J., 1968, Coetus Sanctorum. Der Kirchenbegriff des Novatian und die Geschichte seiner Sonderkirche, Bonn: Phil. Diss.
Wallraff, M., 1997, Der Kirchenhistoriker Sokrates: Untersuchungen zu Geschichtsdarstellung, Methode und Person, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Zenos, A. C., 1890, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. The Ecclesistical History of Socrates Scholasticus, Edinburgh: Scribners.
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