Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity
  • Cited by 5
      • Show more authors
      • You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Select format
    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2020
      September 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108186834
      9781316510131
      9781316649503
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108186834
      Dimensions:
      (230 x 153 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 198 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (230 x 153 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.3kg, 198 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Religion, Church History
    You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Selected: Digital
    Add to cart View cart Buy from Cambridge.org
    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Religion, Church History
    Information

    Book description

    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.

    Reviews

    ‘The two authors, who have worked extensively on the subject in recent years, offer a welcome synthesis, which can serve both as an introduction to the question of late antique letters and as a stimulating essay for those already familiar with the subject.’

    Source: Revue des études byzantines

    Refine List

    Actions for selected content:

    Select all | Deselect all
    • View selected items
    • Export citations
    • Download PDF (zip)
    • Save to Kindle
    • Save to Dropbox
    • Save to Google Drive

    Save Search

    You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

    Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
    Cancel
    ×

    Contents

    Contents
    References

    Metrics

    Full text views

    Total number of HTML views: 0
    Total number of PDF views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    Book summary page views

    Total views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    * Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

    Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

    Accessibility standard: Unknown

    Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.