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EPISTOLARY ACTS Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media This page intentionally left blank Epistolary Acts Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media JORDAN ZWECK UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press 2018 Toronto Buffalo London www.utorontopress.com Printed in the U.S.A. ISBN 978-1-4875-0100-6 Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with vegetable-based inks. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Zweck, Jordan, 1981–, author Epistolary acts : Anglo-Saxon letters and early English media / Jordan Zweck. (Toronto Anglo-Saxon series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4875-0100-6 (cloth) 1.English literature – Old English, ca. 450–1100 – History and criticism. 2.Letter writing – England – History – Medieval, 500–1500. 3. Letters in literature. I. Title. II. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon series PR275.L47Z84 2018 820.9'353 C2017-903714-5 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. Funded by the Financé par le Government gouvernement of Canada du Canada For Colin This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction: Epistolary Acts and The Husband’s Message 3 1 Reconstructing the Anglo-Saxon ars dictaminis: Form, Vocabulary, and Immediacy 24 2 Spreading the Word: The Sunday Letter, Mass Communication, and the Self-Replicating Document 63 3 Messengers, Materiality, and Transmission in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Letter of Abgar, and Life of St Mary of Egypt 106 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 Epilogue: Epistolary Afterlives 185 Bibliography 195 Index 215 This page intentionally left blank

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