La Bible et l'art d'écrire des lettres: Pratiques dans l'aire germanique du XVI e siècle
The present essay studies how, in the Germanic area, the intelligentsia of the Reformation time used the Bible in their correspondences and how the model-letters they found in the letter-writing handbooks utilised the canonical texts. The different manners of refering to the Bible (through the struc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | French |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1995
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| In: |
Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français
Year: 1995, Volume: 141, Pages: 357-382 |
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| Summary: | The present essay studies how, in the Germanic area, the intelligentsia of the Reformation time used the Bible in their correspondences and how the model-letters they found in the letter-writing handbooks utilised the canonical texts. The different manners of refering to the Bible (through the structure of a text, models of virtue or vice, analogies with biblical events, paraphrases and exact quotations) are enumerated and illustrated through examples, some of them being surprising. This investigation led to interesting observations : (i) the more the subject handled by the writer is ticklish (like disappointment, pain, illness, death), the more he tends to make references to the Bible; (ii) the more he wants to sound credible and authoritative, the more he resorts to a biblical phraseology (most often Pauline). |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français
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