A rhetoric for the Empire: education, politics and speech-making in the Byzantine Millennium

This project will make available a series of sources elaborating on the corpus Hermogenianum currently preserved only in manuscript form. To this end, it will provide both critical editions and translations of texts, which, while little known today, shaped the mindset of generations of users in the Greek speaking East during the Middle Ages. Their content, outlining a philosophy of language, will change our perception of medieval intellectual history, offering fresh insights in the way the Byzantines successfully outlined the rules for an ethically sustainable performance of truth.