Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity

Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity
Title Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Pauline Allen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 199
Release 2020-09-10
Genre History
ISBN 1316510131

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Introduction to the nature, function, production and dissemination of Late Antique literary letters and their importance for their society.

Late Antique Letter Collections

Late Antique Letter Collections
Title Late Antique Letter Collections PDF eBook
Author Cristiana Sogno
Publisher University of California Press
Pages 486
Release 2019-11-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0520308417

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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.

A Companion to Late Antique Literature

A Companion to Late Antique Literature
Title A Companion to Late Antique Literature PDF eBook
Author Scott McGill
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 670
Release 2018-07-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1118830350

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Noted scholars in the field explore the rich variety of late antique literature With contributions from leading scholars in the field, A Companion to Late Antique Literature presents a broad review of late antique literature. The late antique period encompasses a significant transitional era in literary history from the mid-third century to the early seventh century. The Companion covers notable Greek and Latin texts of the period and provides a varied overview of literature written in six other late antique languages. Comprehensive in scope, this important volume presents new research, methodologies, and significant debates in the field. The Companion explores the histories, forms, features, audiences, and uses of the literature of the period. This authoritative text: Provides an inclusive overview of late antique literature Offers the widest survey to date of the literary traditions and forms of the period, including those in several languages other than Greek and Latin Presents the most current research and new methodologies in the field Contains contributions from an international group of contributors Written for students and scholars of late antiquity, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative review of the literature from the era.

The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity

The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity
Title The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Anna Marmodoro
Publisher
Pages 439
Release 2013-10
Genre History
ISBN 0199670560

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Explores the persona of the author in classical Greek and Latin authors from a range of disciplines and considers authority and ascription in relation to the authorial voice.

A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography

A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography
Title A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 543
Release 2020-06-22
Genre History
ISBN 900442461X

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A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography offers the first comprehensive introduction and scholarly guide to the cultural practice and literary genre of letter-writing in the Byzantine Empire.

Ancient Letters

Ancient Letters
Title Ancient Letters PDF eBook
Author Ruth Morello
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 392
Release 2007-06-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0191525359

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The surviving body of ancient letters offers the reader a stunning variety of material, ranging from the everyday letters preserved among the Oxyrhynchus papyri to imperial rescripts, New Testament Epistles, fictional or pseudepigraphical letters and a wealth of missives on almost every conceivable subject. They offer us a unique insight into ancient practices in the fields of politics, literature, philosophy, medicine and many other areas. This collection presents a series of case studies in ancient letters, asking how each letter writer manipulates the epistolary tradition, why he chose the letter form over any other, and what effect the publication of volumes of collected letters might have had upon a reader's engagement with epistolary works. This volume is the first of its kind on ancient letters in any language, and it brings together both well-established and promising young scholars currently working in the fields of ancient literature, history, philosophy and medicine to engage in a shared debate about this most adaptable and 'interdisciplinary' of genres.

Conflict and Negotiation in the Early Church

Conflict and Negotiation in the Early Church
Title Conflict and Negotiation in the Early Church PDF eBook
Author Bronwen Neil
Publisher Catholic University of America Press
Pages 289
Release 2020-04-10
Genre Religion
ISBN 0813232775

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Recent decades have seen great progress made in scholarship towards understanding the major civic role played by bishops of the eastern and western churches of Late Antiquity. Brownen Neil and Pauline Allen explore and evaluate one aspect of this civic role, the negotiation of religious conflict. Conflict and Negotiation in the Early Church focuses on the period 500 to 700 CE, one of the least documented periods in the history of the church, but also one of the most formative, whose conflicts resonate still in contemporary Christian communities, especially in the Middle East. To uncover the hidden history of this period and its theological controversies, Neil and Allen have tapped a little known written source, the letters that were exchanged by bishops, emperors and other civic leaders of the sixth and seventh centuries. This was an era of crisis for the Byzantine empire, at war first with Persia, and then with the Arab forces united under the new faith of Islam. Official letters were used by the churches of Rome and Constantinople to pursue and defend their claims to universal and local authority, a constant source of conflict. As well as the east-west struggle, Christological disagreements with the Syrian church demanded increasing attention from the episcopal and imperial rulers in Constantinople, even as Rome set itself adrift and looked to the West for new allies. From this troubled period, 1500 letters survive in Greek, Latin, and Syriac. With translations of a number of these, many rendered into English for the first time, Conflict and Negotiation in the Early Church examines the ways in which diplomatic relations between churches were developed, and in some cases hindered or even permanently ruptured, through letter-exchange at the end of Late Antiquity.