Epistolary acts : Anglo-Saxon letters and early English media
Record details
- ISBN: 1487501005
- ISBN: 9781487501006
- ISBN: 1487512244
- ISBN: 9781487512248
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (223 pages)
remote - Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: epistolary acts and The Husband's Message -- Reconstructing the Anglo-Saxon ars dictaminis : form, vocabulary, and immediacy -- Spreading the word : the Sunday letter, mass communication, and the self-replicating document -- Messengers, materiality, and transmission in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Letter of Abgar, and Life of St Mary of Egypt -- 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. |