Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France

by Katherine Kong

A history of the letter in pre-modern French culture.

Lettering the Self argues that letters in medieval and early-modern France reveal the contours of the pre-modern self. Letters in this period were complicated compositions which, in addition to their administrative and artistic functions, represented the self in relation to its various others: social superiors and subordinates; friends and lovers; teachers and students; allies and adversaries;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843842319
• ISBN13: 9781843842316
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 6.0"