[MR] 12th century letter-writing manual (was Re: Fwd: [M-R] interesting manuscript discovery)

[Karen]

What a neat story, Ingvild! :-)  I've posted my translation of the article at http://larsdatter.com/wordpress/?p=593 in case anyone would like to read it -- the article includes some of the instructions for love-letter-writing, and some of the other interesting details that that manual reveals. :-)

Karen



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Dear medieval-religion colleagues,

Giovanni  Amatuccio sent news to the mediev-l list of a 'new' medieval  
manuscript.

According to a report in today's Repubblica,  at

http://www.repubblica.it/2009/02/sezioni/cronaca/lettere-amore/  
lettere-amore/lettere-amore.html?ref=hpspr1

researchers from the  Arezzo branch of the University of Siena have  
found (in Verona's  Biblioteca capitolare) a twelfth-century *Modi  
dictaminum*, giving  instructions on how to write many sorts of  
letters. The typology of  these texts includes love letters -- not  
just how men should write  women, but also how women should write men.  
And although the codex  is from the twelfth century, some of the model  
letters presented  seem to have been written in the eleventh century  
(including several  written in the Tuscany/Emilia region).

According to the head of the  research team, Francesco Stella, this is  
the first medieval  letter-writing guide with a chapter devoted to  
love letters; and the  fact that the narrator (a cleric, apparently)  
instructs women would  indicate the presence of a contemporary  
audience of literate lay  women.

Best wishes, George

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George  FERZOCO
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