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Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century.(Review)
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March 22, 2000|
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Laurie Shepard, Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century, Garland Studies in Medieval Literature 17 (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999), xi + 240 pp. ISBN 0-8153-3122-3. $55.00.
Laurie Shepard's study of papal and imperial correspondence in the first four decades of the thirteenth century is essentially an effort to interpret a conceptual change in the techniques of persuasion in letter-writing as reflecting broader changes in western European society and politics. Until the late twelfth century, letter-writing was designed to ...
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