Medieval Strategies of Entreaty from North Africa to Eurasia / / ed. by Petra Sijpesteijn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2024
• MitwirkendeR: Bossler, Beverly,; Brandsma, Margreet,; Hagemann, Hannah-Lena,; Hayes, Edmund,; Kristiansen, Birte,; Liu, Jialong,; Liuzzo Scorpo, Antonella,; Montel, Aurélien,; Palombo, Cecilia,; Scheerlinck, Eline,; Sijpesteijn, Petra M.,; Zinger, Oded,
• HerausgeberIn: Sijpesteijn, Petra,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: The medieval globe
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)

This volume in The Medieval Globe Books series surveys the distinctive but also shared rhetorical practices that characterize written requests for intercession, support, and patronage across many languages, cultures, and forms of interaction. Examples range from mundane requests to diplomatic negotiations, preserved in a variety of material media: potsherds, papyrus, paper, administrative handbooks, chronicles, and letter collections. Each contribution focuses on one textual sample or corpus of letters, providing new English translations as well as editions of the original texts in cases where no previous edition is available. Together, they represent the textual conventions and innovations of learned and vernacular epistolary traditions from many regions of North Africa and Eurasia, from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries CE.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- How to Ask in the Medieval World: An Introduction -- “The Caliph Calls You to the Book of God”: Writing to Rebels in the Early Islamic Period -- Maintaining Friendship and Commercial Relations in Eighth- Century Egypt: Three Letters from Abū Yūsuf to Abū Yazīd -- Between Practical Petitioning and Divine Intervention: Entreaties to the Shiʿi Imams in the Ninth Century CE -- Forging Historical and Diplomatic Ties in the Islamic West: The Letter of a Berber Emir to the Umayyad Caliph, 317 ah (929 CE) -- Asking for a Friend: Travel Requests and Social Relations in Umayyad Egypt -- Gender and the Art of Asking: Letters of Request to Distinguished Women Preserved in the Cairo Geniza -- Hidden Private Entreaties behind Two Public Steles in the Mid-Tang Dynasty -- Ghostwriting and Patronage-Seeking Letters in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279 -- Beyond Epistolary Standards? The Language of Entreaty in Political and Diplomatic Communications from Thirteenth-Century Iberia -- Supplication, Authority, Militancy: Epistolary Conventions and Rhetorical Strategies in Letters by Female Members of the Burgundian Dynasty (Fifteenth Century) -- Index