Constructing Christians: Rhetorics of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity - 27/06/2016, Exeter (England)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 27/06/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Exeter (Exeter, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Dr Richard Flower; Prof. Morwenna Ludlow
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INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: r.flower@exeter.ac.uk - R.Flower@exeter.ac.uk
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PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
10:15 Coffee/tea and registration
10:45 Session 1
Introduction
Morwenna Ludlow and Richard Flower
Christian identity and rhetoric about literary style
Morwenna Ludlow
How to persuade a saint: effective speech in Jerome's Lives of Holy Men
Christa Gray
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session 2
New Romans: Augustine of Hippo on the extra-ordinary
Susanna Elm
Preaching and religious identity: the case-study of Augustine’s sermons
Eric Rebillard
15:00 Tea/coffee
15:30 Session 3
Mirrors for bureaucrats? The rhetoric of Christian officeholding in late antiquity
Robin Whelan
Title TBC
Jennifer Ebbeler
Concluding discussion
17:30 Conference closes
19:00 Conference dinner