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Author : Gerald Robert Owst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:640947853
Author : Gerald Robert Owst
Publisher : Oxford, Blackwell, 1966 c1961
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015000379803
Author : G. R. Owst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473963067
Author : Gerald Robert Owst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:1423648116
Author : Martha Carlin,David Crouch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207569
Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters between masters and servants, husbands and wives, neighbors and enemies, and cover a wide range of topics: politics and war, going to fairs and going to law, attending tournaments and stocking a game park, borrowing cash and doing favors for friends, investigating adultery and building a windmill. While letters by celebrated people have long been known, the correspondence of ordinary people has not survived and has generally been assumed never to have existed in the first place. Martha Carlin and David Crouch, however, have discovered numerous examples of such correspondence hiding in plain sight. The letters can be found in manuscripts called formularies—the collections of form letters and other model documents that for centuries were used to teach the arts of letter-writing and keeping accounts. The writing-masters and their students who produced these books compiled examples of all the kinds of correspondence that people of means, members of the clergy, and those who handled their affairs might expect to encounter in their business and personal lives. Tucked among the sample letters from popes to bishops and from kings to sheriffs are examples of a much more casual, ephemeral kind of correspondence. These are the low-level letters that evidently were widely exchanged, but were often discarded because they were not considered to be of lasting importance. Two manuscripts, one in the British Library and the other in the Bodleian Library, are especially rich in such documents, and it is from these collections that Carlin and Crouch have drawn the documents in this volume. They are presented here in their first printed edition, both in the original Latin and in English translation, each document splendidly contextualized in an accompanying essay.
Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521590019
This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern courtier. His blend of counsel, secrecy and eroticism informed the behaviour of poets, lovers, diplomats and even Henry VIII himself. In close readings of the poetry of Hawes and Skelton, the drama of the court, the letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, the writings of Thomas Wyatt, and manuscript anthologies and early printed books, Seth Lerer illuminates a 'Pandaric' world of displayed bodies, surreptitious letters and transgressive performances. In the process, he redraws the boundaries between the medieval and the Renaissance and illustrates the centrality of the verse epistle to the construction of subjectivity.
Author : Philip Beale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429648380
This book was originally published in 1998. From Roman times until this century the business of government has been largely carried out by the writing of letters, either in the form of instructions or of authorisations to deliver information orally. These documents were addressed to the recipient and authenticated by a seal or signature, often having a greeting and a personal conclusion. The messengers who took them also carried copies of laws and regulations, summonses to courts and whatever else was needed for the administration of the country. Without a means of speedy delivery to all concerned there could be no effective government. Separate postal services developed to meet the needs of nobles, the church, merchants, towns and the public. This book discusses three meanings of the word 'post’: the letters, those who carried them, and the means of distribution. It shows that there is some continuity from Roman times and that the postal service established throughout England after the conquest of 1066 continued until 1635 when it was officially extended to the public, thus starting its amalgamation with the other services.
Author : Saint Bede (the Venerable)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0192838660
Bede's most famous work, this edition includes includes a translation of "The Greater Chronicle", in which Bede examines the Roman Empire and contemporary Europe. His "Letter to Egbert" gives his final reflections on the English Church just before his death.
Author : Philip Beale
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752472560
From Roman times until the twentieth century, much of the administration of England was carried out through sending letters. In this richly researched and illustrated volume, Philip Beale gives an insight into the use of letters at a time when few could write yet the power of the letter was undisputed.
Author : Various
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547119838
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)" by Various. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Jordan Zweck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487512255
As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received letters themselves. In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity. Zweck argues that what makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is the performance of what she calls “epistolary acts,” the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts. The book contributes to a growing interest in the intersections between medieval studies and media studies, blending traditional book history and manuscript studies with affect theory, media studies, and archive studies.
Author : James Daybell,Andrew Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812292930
The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to uncover the habits, forms, and secrets of letter writing. Where material features of the letter have often been ignored by past generations fixated on the text alone, contributors to this volume examine how such elements as handwriting, seals, ink, and the arrangement of words on the manuscript page were significant carriers of meaning alongside epistolary rhetorics. The chapters here also explore the travels of the letter, uncovering the many means through which correspondence reached a reader and the ways in which the delivery of letters preoccupied contemporaries. At the same time, they reveal how other practices, such as the use of cipher and the designs of forgery, threatened to subvert the surveillance and reading of letters. The anxiety of early modern letter writers over the vulnerability of correspondence is testament to the deep dependence of the culture on the letter. Beyond the letter as a material object, Cultures of Correspondence sheds light on textual habits. Individual chapters study the language of letter writers to reveal that what appears to be a personal and unvarnished expression of the writer's thought is in fact a deliberate, skillful exercise in managing the conventions and expectations of the form. If letters were a prominent and ingrained part of the cultural life of the early modern period, they also enjoyed textual and archival afterlives whose stories are rarely told. Too often studied only in the case of figures already celebrated for their historical or literary significance, the letter in Cultures of Correspondence emerges as the most vital and wide-ranging material, textual form of the early modern period. Contributors: Nadine Akkerman, Mark Brayshay, Christopher Burlinson, James Daybell, Jonathan Gibson, Andrew Gordon, Arnold Hunt, Lynne Magnusson, Michelle O'Callaghan, Alan Stewart, Andrew Zurcher.
Author : G. R. Owst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:318934525
Author : Mary Swan,Elaine M. Treharne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521623723
Ten essays on the study of Old English texts in the twelfth century, first published in 2000.
Author : Gerald Robert Owst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015011272757