Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Monday, March 8, 2021 6 PM to 7:30 PM
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A virtual talk by Professor Stuart M. McManus, assistant professor of Pre-Modern World History, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
How did ancient Mediterranean rhetoric, law and culture shape life in the early modern Hispanic world? To answer this question, this talk will explore the role of the classical tradition in structuring and disseminating Hispanic discourses on empire, slavery and Christian missions with a particular focus on the ways ancient literary forms and civic practices (from the epigram to Ciceronian public speaking) were then appropriated by ethnically Iberian, indigenous and African students of antiquity to carve out a place for themselves within this hierarchical global space. By taking a global and intersectional approach to classical reception studies, this talk makes the case that the global impact of Greece and Rome cannot be understood without reference to historically-specific constructions of race, gender and class.
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A virtual talk by Professor Stuart M. McManus, assistant professor of Pre-Modern World History, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
How did ancient Mediterranean rhetoric, law and culture shape life in the early modern Hispanic world? To answer this question, this talk will explore the role of the classical tradition in structuring and disseminating Hispanic discourses on empire, slavery and Christian missions with a particular focus on the ways ancient literary forms and civic practices (from the epigram to Ciceronian public speaking) were then appropriated by ethnically Iberian, indigenous and African students of antiquity to carve out a place for themselves within this hierarchical global space. By taking a global and intersectional approach to classical reception studies, this talk makes the case that the global impact of Greece and Rome cannot be understood without reference to historically-specific constructions of race, gender and class.