Late Antique Letter Collections: A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide

Author:   Cristiana Sogno ,  Bradley K. Storin ,  Edward J. Watts
Publisher:   University of California Press
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Pages:   488
Publication Date:   19 November 2019
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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.

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Author:   Cristiana Sogno ,  Bradley K. Storin ,  Edward J. Watts
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780520308411


ISBN 10:   0520308417
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   19 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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List of Abbreviations Introduction: Greek and Latin Epistolography and Epistolary Collections in Late Antiquity Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K. Storin, and Edward J. Watts How to Use This Book 1. Latin Letter Collections before Late Antiquity Michele Renee Salzman 2. Greek Letter Collections before Late Antiquity Christopher P. Jones 3. The Letter Collection of the Emperor Julian Susanna Elm 4. The Letter Collection of Basil of Caesarea Andrew Radde-Gallwitz 5. The Letter Collection of Gregory of Nazianzus Bradley K. Storin 6. The Letter Collection of Gregory of Nyssa Andrew Radde-Gallwitz 7. The Letter Collection of Libanius of Antioch Lieve Van Hoof 8. The Letter Collection of Ausonius Charles N. Aull 9. The Letter Collection of Ambrose of Milan Gérard Nauroy 10. The Letter Collection of Evagrius of Pontus Robin Darling Young 11. The Letter Collection of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus Cristiana Sogno 12. The Letter Collection of John Chrysostom Daniel Washburn 13. The Letter Collection of Synesius of Cyrene David Maldonado Rivera 14. The Letter Collections of Jerome of Stridon Andrew Cain 15. The Letter Collection of Augustine of Hippo Jennifer V. Ebbeler 16. The Letter Collection of Paulinus of Nola Dennis Trout 17. The Letter Collection of Theodoret of Cyrrhus Adam M. Schor 18. The Letter Collection of Isidore of Pelusium Lillian I. Larsen 19. The Letter Collection of Sidonius Apollinaris Sigrid Mratschek 20. The Letter Collection of Ruricius of Limoges Ralph W. Mathisen 21. The Letter Collection of Avitus of Vienne Brendan McCarthy 22. The Letter Collection of Ennodius of Pavia Stefanie A. H. Kennell 23. The Letter Collection of Aeneas of Gaza Edward J. Watts 24. The Letter Collection of Procopius of Gaza David Westberg 25. The Letter Collection of Barsanuphius and John Jennifer L. Hevelone-Harper 26. The Letter Collection of Cassiodorus Shane Bjornlie 27. Papal Letters and Letter Collections Bronwen Neil List of Contributors Index

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[Late Antique Letter Collections] can and ought to be recommended to any student or scholar engaged with late antique literary works. * Augustiniana * [Late Antique Letter Collections] provides scholars with a valuable resource with which to engage in further research and to consider the influence of edited collections in the reading of individual letters. . . .The editors are to be commended for collaborating with over two dozen contributors to produce an impressive and wide-ranging collection of essays which together provide a comprehensive study of the major collections of Latin and Greek letters from the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries. * The Journal of Theological Studies *


[Late Antique Letter Collections] provides scholars with a valuable resource with which to engage in further research and to consider the influence of edited collections in the reading of individual letters. . . .The editors are to be commended for collaborating with over two dozen contributors to produce an impressive and wide-ranging collection of essays which together provide a comprehensive study of the major collections of Latin and Greek letters from the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries. * The Journal of Theological Studies *


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Cristiana Sogno is Associate Professor of Classics at Fordham University.   Bradley K. Storin is Assistant Professor of the Religious Studies at Louisiana State University.   Edward J. Watts is Professor and Alkiviadis Vassiladis Endowed Chair in Byzantine Greek History at the University of California, San Diego.

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