This volume in E009671900 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 on one textual sample or corpus of letters, providing new English translations as well as editions of the original texts in cases where no previous edition is available. Together, they represent the textual conventions and innovations of learned and vernacular epistolary traditions from many regions of North Africa and Eurasia, from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries CE.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2024
Copyrightjahr
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-80270-174-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-199-9
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
The Medieval Globe Books
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
220
Produkttyp
Sammelband
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
How to Ask in the Medieval World: An Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 6
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“The Caliph Calls You to the Book of God” Kein Zugriff Seiten 7 - 30
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Maintaining Friendship and Commercial Relations in Eighth-Century Egypt Kein Zugriff Seiten 31 - 50
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Between Practical Petitioning and Divine Intervention Kein Zugriff Seiten 51 - 66
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Forging Historical and Diplomatic Ties in the Islamic West Kein Zugriff Seiten 67 - 82
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Asking for a Friend Kein Zugriff Seiten 83 - 102
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Gender and the Art of Asking Kein Zugriff Seiten 103 - 128
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Hidden Private Entreaties behind Two Public Steles in the Mid-Tang Dynasty Kein Zugriff Seiten 129 - 146
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Ghostwriting and Patronage-Seeking Letters in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279 Kein Zugriff Seiten 147 - 162
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Beyond Epistolary Standards? Kein Zugriff Seiten 163 - 182
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Supplication, Authority, Militancy Kein Zugriff Seiten 183 - 206
