Where's the Brief?: The Ars Dictaminis and the Reading/Writing Between the Lines

Author / Editor
Camargo, Martin.

Title
Where's the Brief?: The Ars Dictaminis and the Reading/Writing Between the Lines

Published
Disputatio 1 (1996): 1-17.

Description
Considers the letter as a means of spoken and written transmission and demonstrates how the most important elements and functions of the letter prescribed by the "artes dictaminis" were put to creative use in medieval literary texts such as the "Chanson de Roland" and TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.