Chapter 3 Epistolarity in Twelfth-century Byzantine Poetry Singing Praises and Asking Favors in absentia
Letters were an important medium of everyday communication in the ancient Mediterranean. Soon after its emergence, the epistolary form was adopted by educated elites and transformed into a literary genre, which developed distinctive markers and was used, for instance, to give political advice, to co...
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Taylor & Francis
2021
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