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© 2018 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

© 2018 University of Toronto Press, Toronto

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Abbreviations xi
  5. Introduction: Epistolary Acts and The Husband’s Message 1
  6. 1. Reconstructing the Anglo-Saxon ars dictaminis: Form, Vocabulary, and Immediacy 24
  7. 2. Spreading the Word: The Sunday Letter, Mass Communication, and the Self-Replicating Document 63
  8. 3. Messengers, Materiality, and Transmission in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Letter of Abgar, and Life of St Mary of Egypt 106
  9. 4. Bodies of Record: Witnessing, Memory, and Erasure in Ælfric’s Life of St Basil and the Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers 146
  10. Epilogue: Epistolary Afterlives 185
  11. Bibliography 195
  12. Index 215
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Abbreviations xi
  5. Introduction: Epistolary Acts and The Husband’s Message 1
  6. 1. Reconstructing the Anglo-Saxon ars dictaminis: Form, Vocabulary, and Immediacy 24
  7. 2. Spreading the Word: The Sunday Letter, Mass Communication, and the Self-Replicating Document 63
  8. 3. Messengers, Materiality, and Transmission in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Letter of Abgar, and Life of St Mary of Egypt 106
  9. 4. Bodies of Record: Witnessing, Memory, and Erasure in Ælfric’s Life of St Basil and the Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers 146
  10. Epilogue: Epistolary Afterlives 185
  11. Bibliography 195
  12. Index 215
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