MEMORY IN LETTERS: THE EPISTOLARY PRACTICE AND LETTER COLLECTION OF LUPUS OF FERRIÈRES.
This study seeks to uncover the letter writing—and letter collecting— practices of both the ninth-century abbot Lupus of Ferrières and the creators of the principal surviving manuscript of his letters (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 2858). I will do so through a close analysis of the...
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University of California at Los Angeles, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
2022
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