Epistolary Acts
Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media
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2018
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0100-6 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
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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.
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.
Jordan Zweck is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Abbreviations
Introduction: Epistolary Acts and The Husband’s Message
Chapter One: Reconstructing the Anglo-Saxon ars dictaminis: Form, Vocabulary, and Immediacy
Chapter Two: Spreading the Word: the Sunday Letter, Mass Communication, and the Self-Replicating Document
Chapter Three: Messengers, Materiality, and Transmission in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Letter of Abgar, and Mary of Egypt
Chapter Four: Bodies of Record: Witnessing, Memory, and Erasure in Ælfric’s Life of Basil and the Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers
Epilogue: Epistolary Afterlives
Bibliography
Erscheinungsdatum | 27.03.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series |
Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 236 mm |
Gewicht | 520 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4875-0100-5 / 1487501005 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-0100-6 / 9781487501006 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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