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This volume in The Medieval Globe Books series surveys the distinctive but also shared rhetorical practices that characterize written requests for intercession, support, and patronage across many languages, cultures, and forms of interaction. Examples range from mundane requests to diplomatic negoti...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sijpesteijn, Petra (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2024]
Series:Medieval globe.
Subjects:
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Rhetoric and psychology > History > To 1500.
Request (Linguistics) > History.
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Summary:This volume in The Medieval Globe Books series surveys the distinctive but also shared rhetorical practices that characterize written requests for intercession, support, and patronage across many languages, cultures, and forms of interaction. Examples range from mundane requests to diplomatic negotiations, preserved in a variety of material media: potsherds, papyrus, paper, administrative handbooks, chronicles, and letter collections. Each contribution focuses.
Physical Description:vi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781802701746
1802701745