THE ART OF PERSUASION IN 17th AND 18th CENTURY ROMANIAN ORATORICAL TEXTS
THE ART OF PERSUASION IN 17th AND 18th CENTURY ROMANIAN ORATORICAL TEXTS

Summary/Abstract: Relying on the accomplishments of classical ancient oratory, ars praedicandi treatises captured more and more of the attention of medieval rhetoricians, yet this type of rhetoric (unexpectedly) became obsolete during the Renaissance, only to be rediscovered and revived by the baroque rhetoricians, obviously under the influence of the Counter-Reformation. A man of his time, Anthim the Iberian will correlate theological and scientific knowledge (an enterprise characteristic of the Renaissance), as well as make use of stylistic abundance (metaphors, antitheses, interrogations, repetitions) and of the power of spectacular imagery when writing his speeches (a technique which belongs to the baroque style).

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