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Epistolary Acts : Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media /
As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or rece...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Epistolary Acts and The Husband's Message
- 1. Reconstructing the Anglo-Saxon ars dictaminis: Form, Vocabulary, and Immediacy
- 2. Spreading the Word: The Sunday Letter, Mass Communication, and the Self-Replicating Document
- 3. Messengers, Materiality, and Transmission in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Letter of Abgar, and Life of St Mary of Egypt
- 4. Bodies of Record: Witnessing, Memory, and Erasure in Ælfric's Life of St Basil and the Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers
- Epilogue: Epistolary Afterlives
- Bibliography
- Index