IMC 2005: Sessions

Session 522: Latin Letter Collections: Structure and Function

Sponsor:	Medieval-Religion: Scholarly Discussion List for Medieval Religion and Culture
Organiser:	Lena Wahlgren-Smith, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton
Moderator/Chair:	John B. Dillon, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper 522-a	The Publication and Transmission of Symmachus' Epistulae (Language: English) Cristiana Sogno, Department of Classics, University of California, Irvine Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Rhetoric
Paper 522-b	The Sequence of Cassiodorus' Variae: Chance and Design (Language: English) Samuel J. B. Barnish, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 522-c	Functions of Letter Order in 12th-Century Collections (Language: English) Lena Wahlgren-Smith, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	This session explores functions of letter collections of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, as regards structure, composition and, more specifically, letter order.