Letters and Communities: Studies in the Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography 1st Edition

Letters and Communities: Studies in the Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198804208,0198804202,9780192526236, 0192526235

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• ISBN-10: 0192526235
• ISBN-13: 9780192526236
• Author: Paola Ceccarelli, Lutz Doering, Thorsten Fögen

The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time. This model underwrites such iconic notions as the letter representing an ‘image of the soul of the author’ or constituting ‘one half of a dialogue’. However justified this conception of letter-writing may be in particular instances, it tends to marginalize a range of issues that were central to epistolary communication in the ancient world and have yet to receive sustained and systematic investigation. In particular, it overlooks the fact that letters frequently presuppose and were designed to reinforce communities-or, indeed, to constitute them in the first place. This volume explores the interrelation of letters and communities in the ancient world, examining how epistolary communication aided in the construction and cultivation of group-identities and communities, whether social, political, religious, ethnic, or philosophical.

Table contents:

Part A: Theory and Practice of Epistolary Communication

Part B: Configurations of Power and Epistolary Communication: From Greece to Rome

Part C: Letters and Communities in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Part D: Envoi

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