Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
12-6-2016
Abstract
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.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide
First Page
1
Last Page
473
Recommended Citation
Sogno, C., Storin, B., & Watts, E. (2016). Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide. Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide, 1-473. Retrieved from https://repository.lsu.edu/prs_pubs/125