The art of persuasion, as practised today in political debate as well as in the courts of law, has been developed in the rhetorical tradition, but its authors have disappeared from view. One of them was Quintilian, who wrote his Institutio oratoria at the end of the first century AD. This book is special because it contains one of the fullest surveys of rhetorical insights ever written and because it has come down to us in its entirety. Quintilian's rhetorical system has been used in teaching rhetoric at universities since the Middle Ages.
The purpose of 'Quintilian and the Law' is to reintroduce Quintilian's Institutio oratoria to modern readers, and to show that the topics discussed in it are still very much alive today. To that end, modern experts of law and rhetoric present their views on the Institutio oratoria, each dealing with one of the twelve books of which it consists. The authors were free to choose their own way of working, so that some books are described in their entirety, others are discussed from one particular point of view, and others still are treated only with regard to a particular section.
In Roman times, the shortest way to a political career was by working in the law courts. There, one could acquire a reputation for having a thorough knowledge of the law and for being able to speak well in public. In his Institutio oratoria, Quintilian not only formulated important insights in juridical argumentation, in the art of speech-writing, and in the performative aspects of advocacy, he also discussed the ethical problems involved. Because Quintilian larded his instructions with numerous examples from practice, his book takes us back into the Roman law courts and helps us experience their exciting atmosphere.
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The three types of speeches in Quintilian, book III: communicative aspects of the political and legal features of rhetorical discourse
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Proofs, arguments, places: argumentation and rhetorical theory in the Institutio oratoria, book V
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Book VI of Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria: the transmission of knowledge, historical and cultural topicalities, and autobiographic experience
págs. 119-128
Institutio oratoria VI.2: On Emotion
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Emotion in the courtroom: Quintilian’s judge – then and now
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Moving the judge: a legal commentary on book VI of Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria
págs. 157-168
The role of dispositio in the construction of meaning: Quintilian’s perspective
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Status and loci for the modern judge: from voluntas to purpose and beyond
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The reliability of Quintilian for Roman law: on the Causa Curiana
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Some (semiotic) aspects of elocutio in Quintilian: more about Latinitas, perspicuitas, ornatus, and decorum
págs. 201-212
A clarifying sententia clarified: On Institutio oratoria VIII.5.19
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The semiotic minuet in Quintilian’s rhetoric: on the treatment of figures in Book IX of the Institutio oratoria
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Quintilian’s advice on the continuing self-education of the adult orator: Book X of his Institutio oratoria
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Reasons for reading: Quintilian’s advice on ‘What to read’ in book X
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Classical and modern gesticulation accompanying speech: an early theory of body language by Quintilian
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Romanus sapiens and civilis vir: Quintilian’s theory of the orator acting for the benefit of the imperial power
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