Late Antique Letter Collections
A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20418474 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Cristiana Sogno, Bradley K Storin, Edward J Watts |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 488 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Late Antique Letter Collections (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780520966192 |
| OpenAlex | W4322484106 |
| ISBN | 9780520966192 |
| Open Library | OL29749660M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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.
4th century · 5th century · 6th century · Antique · Archaeology · Art · epistolary conventions · Geography · Greek letters · Latin letters · Literary genre · self-presentation · Social History · textual transmission · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Philology · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Briefsammlung · civilization · Civilization, classical · Civilization, Classical, in literature · Classical · Classical Letter writing · Classical letters · Classical, in literature · Griechisch · History and criticism · Latein · Letter writing · Spätantike
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |