Eloquence as profession and art : the use of the ars dictaminis in the letters of Gilbert Stone and his contemporaries c1300-c1450
This thesis is a study of the use of the ars dictaminis (the art of letter-writing) in fourteenth and early fifteenth century England. It has three aims: firstly to examine the extent to which the ars was an integral and important part of professional administration, ecclesiastical and secular; seco...
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University of Oxford
1986
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371626 |