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Empire of Eloquence investigates the crucial role of classical rhetorical traditions in shaping intellectual, religious, and political life across colonial Latin America and the Iberian world. Stuart M. McManus traces how educated elites wielded rhetorical knowledge as a tool of power and persuasion, examining the transmission and transformation of classical rhetoric from ancient sources through Renaissance humanism to colonial America.
The work demonstrates how rhetoric functioned as a fundamental framework for understanding authority, legitimacy, and social order in colonial societies. McManus analyzes sermons, political writings, legal documents, and educational texts to reveal how classical oratorical traditions influenced colonial discourse. This groundbreaking study situates colonial Latin America within broader European intellectual history while showing how colonial thinkers adapted and reimagined rhetorical traditions in their own contexts.
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