Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide
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- Synopsis
- Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300-600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520966192
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780520281448, 9780520308411
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/05/19
- Copyrighted By:
- University of California Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Cristiana Sogno
- Edited by:
- Bradley K. Storin
- Edited by:
- Edward J. Watts
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