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Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity - The Christianisation of a Literary Form (Paperback)
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Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity - The Christianisation of a Literary Form (Paperback)
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This is the first general book on Greek and Latin letter-writing in
Late Antiquity (300-600 CE). Allen and Neil examine early Christian
Greek and Latin literary letters, their nature and function and the
mechanics of their production and dissemination. They examine the
exchange of Episcopal, monastic and imperial letters between men,
and the gifts that accompanied them, and the rarer phenomenon of
letter exchanges with imperial and aristocratic women. They also
look at the transmission of letter-collections and what they can
tell us about friendships and other social networks between the
powerful elites who were the literary letter-writers of the fourth
to sixth centuries. The volume gives a broad context to
late-antique literary letter-writing in Greek and Latin in its
various manifestations: political, ecclesiastical, practical and
social. In the process, the differences between 'pagan' and
Christian letter-writing are shown to be not as great as has
previously been supposed.
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