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This volume brings together contributions from authors from sixteen European countries who seek their roots in the classical Greek heritage and especially in literary or epigraphic texts written in ancient Greek, Byzantine, Renaissance or later eras. With this they seek to clarify the idea of their own nationality in the context of the construction of a multifaceted Europe with a historical personality, from the past to the present.

Greece --- Classical tradition --- Europe

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Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, known as 'transformation', the study of Renaissance humanism. Traditional scholarship takes the Renaissance humanists at their word, that they were simply viewing the ancient world as it actually was and recreating its key features within their own culture. Initially modern studies in the classical tradition accepted this claim and saw this process as largely passive. 'Transformation theory' emphasizes the active role played by the receiving culture both in constructing a vision of the past and in transforming that vision into something that was a meaningful part of the later culture. A chapter than explains the terminology and workings of 'transformation theory' is followed by essays by nine established experts that suggest how the key disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and philosophy in the Renaissance represent transformations of what went on in these fields in ancient Greece and Rome. The picture that emerges suggests that Renaissance humanism as it was actually practiced both received and transformed the classical past, at the same time as it constructed a vision of that past that still resonates today.

Humanism --- History. --- History --- E-books --- Classical tradition. --- Reception studies. --- Renaissance humanism.

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This book analyzes the advocacy, conceptualization, and institutionalization of rhetoric from 1770 to 1860. Among the forces promoting advocacy was the need for oratory calling for independence, the belief that using rhetoric was the way to succeed in biblical interpretation and preaching, and the desire for rhetoric as entertainment. Conceptually, leaders followed classical and German rhetoricians in viewing rhetoric as an art of ethical choice. Institutionally, a rhetorician such as Ebenezer Porter called for the development of organizations at all levels, a “sociology of rhetoric.” Orville Dewey highlighted the passion for rhetoric, calling his times “the age of eloquence.”

Rhetoric --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- History --- United States --- Intellectual life --- American Studies. --- Classical Studies. --- Classical Tradition & Reception Studies. --- North America.

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Literature --- Literature. --- History and criticism --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- literature --- cultural studies --- humanities --- comparative literature --- classical tradition --- culture --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature - General

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Jan L. de Jong studies how tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600) did not just function as a place to bury the dead, but as monuments of mourning, memory, and meditation on life, death and the hereafter. In Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600) , Jan L. de Jong studies how funerary monuments did not simply mark a grave, but offered an image of the deceased that was carefully crafted in order to generate a laudable memory and stimulate meditation on life, death and the hereafter. This leads to such questions as: which image of themselves did cardinals create when they commissioned their own tomb monument? Why were most popes buried in a grandiose tomb monument that they claimed they did not want? Which memory of their mother did children create, and what do tombs for children tell about mothers? Were certain couples buried together so as to demonstrate their eternal love, expecting an afterlife in each other’s company?

Art History --- Classical Studies --- Classical Tradition & Reception Studies --- Cultural History --- Early Modern History --- History --- Literature and Cultural Studies --- Memory Studies --- Cultural history --- Art History. --- Classical Studies. --- Classical Tradition & Reception Studies. --- Cultural History. --- Early Modern History. --- History. --- Literature and Cultural Studies. --- Memory Studies. --- Art history --- History of art --- Rome (Italy) --- Social life and customs.