This is the first general book on Greek and Latin letter-writing in Late Antiquity (400300-600 CE).
They also look at the transmission of let.
They examine the exchange of Episcopal, monastic and imperial Letters between men, and the gifts that accompanied them, and the rarer phenomenon of letter exchanges with imperial and aristocratic women.
Allen and Neil examine early Christian Greek and Latin Literary letters, their nature and function and the mechanics of their production and dissemination.
This is the first general book on Greek and Latin letter-writing in Late Antiquity (400300-600 CE)