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Author : Suzanne L. Abram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000042733356
Author : Paola Ceccarelli,Lutz Doering,Thorsten Fögen,Ingo Gildenhard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192526236
The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites such iconic notions as the letter representing an 'image of the soul of the author' or constituting 'one half of a dialogue'. However justified this conception of letter-writing may be in particular instances, it tends to marginalize a range of issues that were central to epistolary communication in the ancient world and have yet to receive sustained and systematic investigation. In particular, it overlooks the fact that letters frequently presuppose and were designed to reinforce communities-or, indeed, to constitute them in the first place. This volume explores the interrelation of letters and communities in the ancient world, examining how epistolary communication aided in the construction and cultivation of group-identities and communities, whether social, political, religious, ethnic, or philosophical. A theoretically informed Introduction establishes the interface of epistolary discourse and group formation as a vital but hitherto neglected area of research, and is followed by thirteen case studies offering multi-disciplinary perspectives from four key cultural configurations: Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity. The first part opens the volume with two chapters on the theory and practice of epistolary communication that focus on ancient epistolary theory and the unavoidable presence of a letter-carrier who introduces a communal aspect into any correspondence, while the second comprises five chapters that explore configurations of power and epistolary communication in the Greek and Roman worlds, from the archaic period to the end of the Hellenistic age. Five chapters on letters and communities in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity follow in the third, part before the volume concludes with an envoi examining the trans-historical, or indeed timeless, philosophical community Seneca the Younger construes in his Letters to Lucilius.
Author : Carol Poster,Linda C. Mitchell
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1570036519
Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Poster and Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume, they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials - from Isocrates to email - that form the basis for its study.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020021528
Author : Colleen Barceló Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00647486Y
Author : Ecclesiastical History Society. Summer Meeting,Ecclesiastical History Society. Winter Meeting
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780954680992
A wide-ranging and impressive collection which illuminates the enduring relationship between the Church and literary creation.
Author : Walter Roy Laird
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031455056
Author : Juanita Ruys,Clare Monagle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350091764
Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing emphasis on the arousal of individual emotions and their acceptance as a means towards devotion. In religion, we see a move from the ascetic regulation of emotions to the affective piety of the later medieval period that valued the believer's identification with the Passion of Christ and the sorrow of Mary. In science and medicine, the nature and causes of emotions, their role in constituting the human person, and their impact on the same became a subject of academic inquiry. Emotions also played an increasingly important public role, evidenced in populace-wide events such as conversion and the strategies of rulership. Between 350 and 1300, emotions were transformed from something to be transcended into a location for meditation upon what it means to be human.
Author : Michael J. Kelly,Michael Burrows
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781953035066
This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late "Roman" and post-"Roman" cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on. This research has contributed considerably to our understanding of the place of the city in its context, but tends to portray the city as a necessarily subordinate conduit within larger structures, rather than an entity in itself, or as a hermeneutical object of enquiry. Consequently, not enough research has been committed to examining how local people and communities thought about, engaged with, and struggled against nearby or distant urban neighbors.Urban Interactions addresses this lacuna in urban history by presenting articles that apply a diverse spectrum of approaches, from archaeological investigation to critical analyses of historiographical and historical biases and developmental consideration of antagonisms between ecclesiastical centers. Through these avenues of investigation, this volume elucidates the relationship between the urban centers and their immediate hinterlands and neighboring cities with which they might vie or collaborate. This entanglement and competition, whether subterraneous or explicit across overarching political, religious or other macro categories, is evaluated through a broad geographical range of late "Roman" provinces and post-"Roman" states to maintain an expansive perspective of developmental trends within and about the city.
Author : Rita Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139427982
This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita Copeland places heretical and orthodox attitudes to learning in a long historical perspective that reaches back to antiquity. She shows how educational ideologies of ancient lineage left their imprint on the most sharply politicized categories of late medieval culture, and how radical teachers transformed inherited ideas about classrooms and pedagogy as they brought their teaching to adult learners. The pedagogical imperatives of Lollard dissent were also embodied in the work of certain public figures, intellectuals whose dissident careers transformed the social category of the medieval intellectual. Looking closely at the prison narratives of two Lollard preachers, Copeland shows how their writings could serve as examples for their fellow dissidents and forge a new rapport between academic and non-academic communities.
Author : Sophie Page,Catherine Rider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317042754
The Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic between c.1100 and c.1500. This book covers a wide range of topics, including the magical texts which circulated in medieval Europe, the attitudes of intellectuals and churchmen to magic, the ways in which magic intersected with other aspects of medieval culture, and the early witch trials of the fifteenth century. In doing so, it offers the reader a detailed look at the impact that magic had within medieval society, such as its relationship to gender roles, natural philosophy, and courtly culture. This is furthered by the book’s interdisciplinary approach, containing chapters dedicated to archaeology, literature, music, and visual culture, as well as texts and manuscripts. The Routledge History of Medieval Magic also outlines how research on this subject could develop in the future, highlighting under-explored subjects, unpublished sources, and new approaches to the topic. It is the ideal book for both established scholars and students of medieval magic.
Author : Erich Auerbach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993-06-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0691024685
In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his Mimesis: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.
Author : Bernhard Bischoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521367263
This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography. Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture. It will be used extensively in the teaching of latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded.
Author : Marcia L. Colish
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004474444
Author : Bernhard Bischoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521364736
First published in 1979, this work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance and outlines the history of book illumination. By setting the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture.
