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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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Table of Contents:
- 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