Late Antique Letter Collections
Subtitle: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Dec 06, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780520281448
Description: "This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300-600 C.E.). Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, it illustrates how letter collections advertised an image of the letter writer and introduces the social and textual histories of each collection. Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, examining their assembly, publication, and transmission. In addition, contributions reveals how late antique letter collections operated as a discrete literary genre with its own conventions, transmission processes, 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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Source title: Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide