Late Antique Letter Collections A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780520308411 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Pub date: | 08 Nov 2019 |
Edition: | First Edition edition |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 488 |
Weight: | 834g |
Height: | 178mm |
Width: | 252mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |