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Letter collections in late antiquity give witness to the flourishing of letter-writing, with the development of the mostly formulaic exchanges between elites of the Graeco-Roman world to a more wide-ranging correspondence by bishops and monks, as well as emperors and Gothic kings. The contributors to this volume study individual collections from the first to sixth centuries CE, ranging from the Pauline and Deutero-Pauline letters through monastic letters from Egypt, bishops' letter collections and early papal collections compiled for various purposes. This is the first multi-authored study of New Testament and late antique letter collections, crossing the traditional divide between these disciplines by focusing on Latin, Greek, Coptic and Syriac epistolary sources. It draws together leading scholars in the field of late antique epistolography from Australasia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Letter writing --- History. --- Religious aspects. --- History --- Letter writing. --- Brief. --- Frühchristentum. --- Literatur. --- Ancient --- General. --- Neues Testament. --- Religious aspects --- Letter writing - History --- Letter writing - Religious aspects --- Lettres --- Collections

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A history of love and courtship in Mexico from the 1860s through the 1930s based on love letters preserved in legal cases involving courtship.

Letter writing --- Courtship --- Love-letters --- Erotic literature --- Letters --- Courting --- Wooing --- Betrothal --- Love --- Marriage --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- History

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Chinese letters --- Letter writing, Chinese --- History and criticism

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Rhetoric --- Speechwriting --- Government report writing --- Political letter writing --- Political science --- Political aspects --- Authorship

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Letter Writing and Language Change outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis, both in theory and practice. The chapters in this volume make use of insights from all three 'Waves of Variation Studies', and many of them, either implicitly or explicitly, look at specific aspects of the language of the letter writers in an effort to discover how those writers position themselves and how they attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to construct social identities. The letters are largely from people in the lower strata of social structure, either to addressees of the same social status or of a higher status. In this sense the question of the use of 'standard' and/or 'nonstandard' varieties of English is in the forefront of the contributors' interest. Ultimately, the studies challenge the assumption that there is only one 'legitimate' and homogenous form of English or of any other language.

English letters. --- Brief. --- Schriftsprache. --- English-speaking countries. --- Social aspects --- English-speaking countries --- Englisch. --- English language --- English letters --- Language arts & disciplines --- Letter writing --- Soziolinguistik. --- Sprachvariante. --- Written communication --- Variation. --- History and criticism. --- Linguistics --- Historical & comparative. --- Social aspects. --- Sociolinguistics --- Germanic languages --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters