Ad Regem: uses of epideictic and forensic rhetorics in the Chronicle of Guinea’s dedicatory (fifteenth century)

Authors

  • Jerry Santos Guimarães Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB).
  • Marcello Moreira Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2012v19n27p288

Abstract

We have as pourpose to demonstrate how Gomes Eanes de Zurara, second chief chronicler of the House of Avis in the fifteenth century Lusitanian, made use of rhetorical procedures in a work of historiography, namely, the Chronicle of Guinea, more specifically in its dedication to Prince D. Henrique.

Author Biographies

Jerry Santos Guimarães, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB).

Mestre em Memória: Linguagem e Sociedade pela Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB). Graduado em História e especialista em Teoria e História Literária pela mesma universidade. É professor concursado de História do Ensino Médio na Secretaria de Educação do Estado Bahia. Pesquisa os seguintes temas: relações entre memória, retórica e história; crônicas medievais portuguesas; história da África e dos africanos; cultura afro-brasileira.

Marcello Moreira, Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB).

Doutor em Literatura Brasileira pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Professor titular de Literatura Brasileira do Departamento de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários (DELL) da Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB).

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Published

2012-06-09

How to Cite

Guimarães, J. S., & Moreira, M. (2012). Ad Regem: uses of epideictic and forensic rhetorics in the Chronicle of Guinea’s dedicatory (fifteenth century). Esboços: Histories in Global Contexts, 19(27), 288–313. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2012v19n27p288

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Vol. 19 No. 27 (2012): Dossiê História e Cinema

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