Author: Emil J. Polak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-02-11
Total Pages: 921
ISBN-13: 9004284672
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Letter writing was the major branch of rhetoric in the High Middle Ages (ars dictaminis) and Renaissance (ars epistolandi). As the primary source of discourse it played major roles in the history of education, the Latin language and literature, and its relation to grammar and oratory (ars arengandi). The letters are also a very rich source ranging from Church and State correspondence to social hierarchies and fiction. Several hundred authors, recognized as precursors of the Humanists, produced treatises, manuals, formularies and model letter collections found in a few thousand largely unstudied manuscripts. This is the third and final volume of the Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters, a singular reference work, a manuscript inventory of texts, most of which were examined in situ by Emil J. Polak in almost nine-hundred libraries and archives. The repertory is arranged alphabetically by country and city with standard details for each manuscript. Four indexes conclude the work.
Author: Polak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-13
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9004624406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This inventory consists of over 1,200 references to Medieval and Renaissance Latin manuscripts containing treatises and manuals on letter-writing, formularies, and model letter collections found in over 250 libraries and archives in part of Western Europe, Japan, and the U.S.A. Standard details are given for the manuscripts and the texts. Four indexes of manuscripts, incipits, Medieval and Renaissance authors, and select anonymous works are included.
Author: Emil J. Polak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-04
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 900462581X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Letter-writing was seen in the Middle Ages and Renaissance as a major branch of rhetoric, and its importance is testified to by the survival of numerous manuals, treatises, formularies and model letter collections. Polak's pioneering inventory is the first comprehensive and organized compilation of over 1100 extant Latin manuscript sources consulted in almost 200 libraries and archives in what was until recently Communist Eastern Europe. The survey is arranged alphabetically by country, city, library or archive, and collection, and gives standard details of folios, incipits, explicits, colophons and bibliography. Four indexes of manuscripts, incipits, medieval and renaissance authors and select anonymous works are also provided. N.B.: previously announced as Iter Epistolographicum.
Author: Emil J. Polak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9789004099159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Betr. Manuskripte der Universitätsbibliothek Basel, S. 193-215.
Author: Emil J. Polak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9789004096677
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work inventorises and describes over 1100 extant Latin manuscript manuals and treatises on letter-writing, formularies and model letter collections consulted in almost 200 libraries and archives in former Communist Eastern Europe. It includes indexes of manuscripts, incipits, authors and anonymous works.
Author: Carol Poster
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9781570036514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Poster and Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume, they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials - from Isocrates to email - that form the basis for its study.
Author: Ronald G. Witt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-19
Total Pages: 617
ISBN-13: 0521764742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the intellectual life of Italy, where humanism began a century before it influenced the rest of Europe.