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Cawsey, Suzanne F., Kingship and Propaganda: Royal Eloquence and the Crown of Aragon, c. 1200-1450, Nova York - Oxford, Clarendon Press - Oxford University Press (Oxford historical monographs), 2002, xiv + 184 pp.
- Resum
- In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Crown of Aragon was a rapidly expanding and powerful political unit with an original form of representative government. Throughout this period a series of energetic and talented rulers sought to maintain royal authority and govern their realms effectively. Their persuasive rhetoric, and that of their advisers, is preserved in the archives of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona, which provide a rich and under-exploited vein of source material for historians. There are long letters to their subjects, historical works, and the proceedings of the cortes, where the kings and queens perusaded their reluctant subjects to grant taxes and to support their decisions. Suzanne F. Cawsey examines the tradition of royal eloquence, thereby illuminating the nature of political discourse and persuasion in medieval Aragon and exploring the key ideas shared by the king and the political classes of the kingdom.
Contents:
* 1. The three images of the king
* 2. The future king: literacy and royal education in rhetoric
* 3. Royal speeches and authorship
* 4. «Usurpant official sacerdotii»: royal sermons
* 5. Pedro IV and his sons: the apotheosis of royal preaching
* 6. Mythologies of state
* 7. 'The word of the king is full of power': kingship and propaganda in peace and war
* 8. The ceremonial of an occasion: royal speeches and the cortes
- Matèries
- Història - Política
Retòrica
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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Trad. cat.: Reialesa i propaganda: l'eloqüència reial i la Corona d'Aragó, c. 1200-1450, València, Universitat de València, 2008, 220 pp.
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