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Description:Correspondence explores the history of a fascinating cultural practice: the writing of letters. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, western societies served a long apprenticeship in the culture of the written word. Although mastery of reading and writing was far from evenly distributed, many tradesmen, shopkeepers, and artisans possessed these skills. A specialized literature came into being whose aim it was to regulate and control ordinary forms of letter-writing by instilling in people the difficult techniques that this writing entailed. As a result, tensions evolved in the structured practice of letter-writing. Although writers wished to stay within the guidelines set forth by secrétaires or by collections of model letters, they also wanted to be spontaneous. Correspondence explores these tensions over a long span of time by examining model letter collections.Contents:Introduction: An ordinary kind of writing / Roger Chartier1. The letter-writing norm, a mediaeval invention / Alain Boureau 2. Secrétaires for the people? / Roger Chartier --3. Letter-writing manuals in the nineteenth century / Cécile Dauphin.Translation of 3 chapters from La correspondance: les usages de la lettre au XIXe siècle (1991).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Ninteenth Century. To get started finding Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Ninteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Correspondence explores the history of a fascinating cultural practice: the writing of letters. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, western societies served a long apprenticeship in the culture of the written word. Although mastery of reading and writing was far from evenly distributed, many tradesmen, shopkeepers, and artisans possessed these skills. A specialized literature came into being whose aim it was to regulate and control ordinary forms of letter-writing by instilling in people the difficult techniques that this writing entailed. As a result, tensions evolved in the structured practice of letter-writing. Although writers wished to stay within the guidelines set forth by secrétaires or by collections of model letters, they also wanted to be spontaneous. Correspondence explores these tensions over a long span of time by examining model letter collections.Contents:Introduction: An ordinary kind of writing / Roger Chartier1. The letter-writing norm, a mediaeval invention / Alain Boureau 2. Secrétaires for the people? / Roger Chartier --3. Letter-writing manuals in the nineteenth century / Cécile Dauphin.Translation of 3 chapters from La correspondance: les usages de la lettre au XIXe siècle (1991).We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Ninteenth Century. To get started finding Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the Ninteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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