Epistolary Acts : : Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media / / Jordan Zweck.
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...
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Zweck, Jordan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Epistolary Acts : Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media / Jordan Zweck. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 received letters themselves. In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity. Zweck argues that what makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is the performance of what she calls “epistolary acts,” the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts. The book contributes to a growing interest in the intersections between medieval studies and media studies, blending traditional book history and manuscript studies with affect theory, media studies, and archive studies. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) English literature Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism. Letter writing England History To 1500. Letters in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783111273631 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2018 English 9783110604184 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2018 9783110603187 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606799 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487512248 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487512248 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487512248/original |
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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 |
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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 |
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