 | Epistolary Acts: Anglo-Saxon Letters and Early English Media Subjects: English literature -- Old English ca. 450–1100 -- History and criticism; Letter writing -- England -- History -- Medieval 500–1500; Letters in literature; In Epistolary Acts , Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity. Zweck Jordan : Jordan Zweck is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
