Name: BRUNO SOARES LIMA
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 13/04/2018
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| LENI RIBEIRO LEITE | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| JOSÉ MÁRIO GONÇALVES | External Examiner * |
| LENI RIBEIRO LEITE | Advisor * |
| SERGIO ALBERTO FELDMAN | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: The present study analyzes the book De Civitate Dei written by Augustine of Hippo between 412426 CE according to political relations and roman traditions aspects related to discursive rhetoric and emphasizing text's view on Rome like the City of God. The problem formulated questions the structure and function of rhetoric of book in view of hypothesis that an ideal of Rome was constructed in the text written by Augustine to service to the objective of to defend Christians against the accusation from the non-Christian Romans that the invasion of Rome was the fault of the christianism. The aim of this study is to show the construction of the roman traditions and of the political relations in the Augustines rhetorical as an approach of the document to discuss historical aspects of the De Civitate Dei through of the theoretical and methodological contributions of social History. This discussion will focus on the concepts developed by Max Weber, Serge Bertein, Roger Chartier e Pierre Bourdier. It makes use of methodology of french discourse analysis according specialist in discourse analysis Dominique Maingueneau.
