Letters and communities : studies in the socio-political dimensions of ancient epistolography / edited by Paola Ceccarelli, Lutz Doering, Thorsten Fögen, and Ingo Gildenhard.
In the ancient world, letter-writing not only forged connections between individuals, but also helped to construct and cultivate group-identities and communities. This volume explores the interrelation of epistolary communication and socio-political practice across four key cultural configurations:...
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| Other title: | Letters & communities. |
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2018.
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| 246 | 1 | 8 | |a Letters & communities. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford, United Kingdom : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2018. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2018. | |
| 300 | |a viii, 373 pages ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Introduction / |r Paola Ceccarelli, Lutz Doering, Thorsten Fögen, and Ingo Gildenhard -- |g Part A: Theory and practice of epistolary communication. |g 1. |t Ancient approaches to letter-writing and the configuration of communities through epistles / |r Thorsten Fögen -- |g 2. |t Couriers and conventions in Cicero's epostolary network / |r Bianca-Jeanette Schröder -- |g Part B: Configurations of power and epistolary communication : from Greece to Rome. |g 3. |t Tyrants, letters, and legitimacy / |r Sian Lewis -- |g 4. |t Powers in dialogue: the letters and diagrammata of Macedonian kings to local communities / |r Manuela Mari -- |g 5. |t Letters and decrees: diplomatic protocols in the Hellenistic period / |r Paola Ceccarelli -- |g 6. |t Letters, diplomacy, and the Roman conquest of Greece / |r Robin Osborne -- |g 7. A |t republic in letters: epistolary communities in Cicero's correspondence, 49-44 BCE / |r Ingo Gildenhard -- |g Part C: Letters and communities in ancient Judaism and early Christianity. |g 8. The |t literacy and ideological character of the letters in Ezra 4-7 / |r Sebastian Grätz -- |g 9. |t 'From me, Jerusalem, the Holy City, to you Alexandria in Egypt, my sister...' (Bavli Sanhedrin 107b): the role of letters in power relations between 'centre' and 'periphery' in Judaism in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Islamic periods / |r Philip Alexander -- |g 10. |t Configuring addressee communities in ancient Jewish letters: the case of the epistle of Baruch (2 Baruch 78-86) / |r Lutz Doering -- |g 11. The |t letters of Paul and the construction of early Christian networks / |r John M. G. Barclay -- |g 12. The |t communities configured in the letter of James / |r Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr -- |g Part D: Envoi. |g 13. |t Conversing with the absent, corresponding with the dead: friendship and philosophical community in Seneca's letters / |r Catharine Edwards. |
| 520 | 8 | |a In the ancient world, letter-writing not only forged connections between individuals, but also helped to construct and cultivate group-identities and communities. This volume explores the interrelation of epistolary communication and socio-political practice across four key cultural configurations: Greece, Rome, Judaism, and Christianity. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Letters |v Early works to 1800. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Letter writing, Greek |x Social aspects |x History |y To 1500. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Letter writing, Latin |x Social aspects |x History |y To 1500. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Letter writing, Hebrew |x Social aspects |x History |y To 1500. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Gildenhard, Ingo, |d 1970- |e editor. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99026017 |1 http://isni.org/isni/0000000121284549. | |
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