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Introduction: Epistolary Acts and The Husband’s Message
Chapter One: Reconstructing the Anglo-Saxon ars dictaminis: Form, Vocabulary, and Immediacy
Chapter Two: Spreading the Word: the Sunday Letter, Mass Communication, and the Self-Replicating Document
Chapter Three: Messengers, Materiality, and Transmission in the Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Letter of Abgar, and Mary of Egypt
Chapter Four: Bodies of Record: Witnessing, Memory, and Erasure in Ælfric’s Life of Basil and the Anonymous Old English Legend of the Seven Sleepers
Epilogue: Epistolary Afterlives
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