This study examines the discourse of reform within the Franciscan Observant movement through an analysis of two late medieval chronicles: Nicolaus Glassberger’s Chronica ordinis minorum observantum and Bernardino Aquilano’s Chronica fratrum minorum observantiae.  Meer

This study examines the discourse of reform within the Franciscan Observant movement through an analysis of two late medieval chronicles: Nicolaus Glassberger’s Chronica ordinis minorum observantum and Bernardino Aquilano’s Chronica fratrum minorum observantiae.  Meer

This book represents the first comprehensive study of late Byzantine court rhetorical praise as a general phenomenon surfacing in many types of rhetorical epideictic compositions dating from the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries.  Meer

This book is addressed to both a specialized audience who is interested in a new approach to Byzantine literary culture as well as to students who readers will become acquainted with and how various praise techniques and themes permeated other aspects of Byzantine literary culture like moral and spiritual advice.  Meer

With a special focus on the first two decades of Manuel II Palaiologos’ rule, 1391–1417, Leonte offers a new understanding of the imperial ethos in Byzantium by combining rhetorical analysis with investigation of social and political phenomena.  Meer

With a special focus on the first two decades of Manuel II Palaiologos’ rule, 1391–1417, Leonte offers a new understanding of the imperial ethos in Byzantium by combining rhetorical analysis with investigation of social and political phenomena.  Meer

This book enquires into the counter-hegemonic capacity of international criminal justice. It highlights perspectives and themes that have thus far often been neglected in the scholarship on international criminal justice.  Meer