Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century by Laurie Shepard

Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century

Garland Studies in Medieval Literature

Laurie Shepard

263 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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This text chronicles a change in epistolary persuasion in the 1230's, crystallized at the imperial chancery of Frederick II, Emperor from 1220-1250. There, traditional appeals, premised on authority and harmony, were challenged by letters in which...

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