ENGL 309B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dispositio, Dialectic
19 Oct 2016
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Dictated by the author, who weren"t actually writing them. People taking dictations, clerks; make 5-10 copies, send to others. I. e. business of admin done through these letters. Europe, dukedoms, municipalities -> hierarchal in their set up. King, nobles, land owning class and knights, everyone else. Families of the high nobility and of royalty are politically deployed. > daughters are incredibly important for marriage purposes. > system of education in which parents of any wealth would send children off to get educated in other households. Letters for shipment, to start wars, not private at all. Schools at the time tended to be church run, local, and occasionally run through the courts of nobility. Augustine chair of rhetoric at the royal court. Train people in the business of the church, had to be literate as a priest. Had to be literate to be a clerk. Law sided with secular authorities instead of the church.
