Introduction to the nature, function, production and dissemination of Late Antique literary letters and their importance for their society.

Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extan

This is the first general book on Greek and Latin letter-writing in Late Antiquity (300–600 CE). Allen and Neil examine early Christian Greek and Latin litera

Letter collections in late antiquity give witness to the flourishing of letter-writing, with the development of the mostly formulaic exchanges between elites of