Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity: The Christianisation of a Literary Form

by Bronwen Neil and Pauline Allen

This is the first general book on Greek and Latin letter-writing in Late Antiquity (400300-600 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316510131
• ISBN13: 9781316510131
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"