Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-5 pm
Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Session 1, March 15. Introduction to Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Rhetorical Culture
Session 2, March 20. Rhetoric and Politics: The Role of Rhetoric in the Court of Henry IV of France
Session 3, March 22. Rhetoric, Politics, and Theology: The Case of the Jesuit Order
Session 4, March 27. Devout Rhetoric in Print: Imago Primi Saeculi Societatis Jesu (Antwerp, 1640)
Session 5, April 3. Rhetoric and History: The Case of the “Memoirs” Genre
Session 6, April 5. Rhetoric and the Theater: The Quarrel about the Morality of the Theater
Session 7, April 10. Rhetoric and the Printing Press: The Art of Frontispieces
Session 8, April 17. Rhetoric and Painting: Interpreting Poussin’s Paintings in Context
See also Professor Fumaroli’s paper at the related Conference on Rethinking the Languages of Criticism in the French Renaissance.
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