When you think of the Renaissance, think of Nagasaki, Goa and Oaxaca
How the rhetorical tradition of Cicero interacted with local cultures to create hybrid Renaissances in Asia and Latin America
by Stuart M McManus
Stuart M McManus is assistant professor of pre-modern world history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the author of Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World (2021).
Written by Stuart M McManus