Introduction: Letters and the Language of Power
Royal Letters: The Authority of a Form
Rhetorical Refinement: Epistolary Editing and its Implications
Announcing the Message: Communities of Reception and Royal
Ideology
'Dear Cousin': Affect and Epistolarity Beyond Borders
Keeping Friends Close: Strategies of Epistolary Alignment
Rhetoric Under Strain: Re-writing Royal Epistolarity
Conclusion. Royal Epistolarity: The Voice of the King
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
KATHLEEN B. NEAL is Lecturer in History at Monash University.
[An] interesting, dynamic and hugely important contribution to our
understanding of the period.
*HISTORY AUSTRALIA*
Kathleen Neal's first monograph is an outstanding contribution, not
only to the study of Edward I's letters, but also to the
understanding of letter-writing, rhetoric, and epistolarity in
general, and constitutes a model for future work in royal
correspondence.
*ROYAL STUDIES JOURNAL*
An impressive work... offers an important and much-needed study of
medieval letters and the language of power, using Edward I's
letters to illustrate how language was manipulated to sustain
models of power and authority.
*SPECULUM*
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