Correspondence - Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Ninteenth Century

In this book Roger Chartier and his associates explore the history of a cultural practice that has become common and widespread: the writing of letters.


They begin by examining the invention of norms for writing letters in the Middle Ages, and the fixing of these norms in popular manuals of various kinds.

Summary

In this book Roger Chartier and his associates explore the history of a cultural practice that has become common and widespread: the writing of letters. They begin by examining the invention of norms for writing letters in the Middle Ages, and the fixing of these norms in popular manuals of various kinds.

Product details

• Authors: R Chartier, Roger Chartier, ROGER CHARTIER
• Assisted by: Alain Boureau (Editor), Roger Chartier (Editor), Roger (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Chartier (Editor), Cecile Dauphin (Editor)
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.04.1997
• EAN: 9780745612256
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-1225-6
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 374 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics