Vol. 8 No. 3 (2017): History and Correspondence
The conception of this dossier arose from our interests in articulating History and
Correspondence, as this is a field in which we have acted, as we consider it very useful
for understanding Intellectual production. Field that has been widely practiced, especially
contemporaneously, in the academy since the private collections of intellectuals who maintained
the epistolary practice were made available. However, it should be noted that the epistolary
practice can already be found in the societies of the ancient Near East, in Hellenic Greece,
in the Roman empire, in the medieval Roman-Germanic, etc. There is undoubtedly a vast amount
of documentation that is presented to the historian interested in producing private,
intellectual, political biographies, among the many other dimensions that this type of
source brings together.
Correspondence, as this is a field in which we have acted, as we consider it very useful
for understanding Intellectual production. Field that has been widely practiced, especially
contemporaneously, in the academy since the private collections of intellectuals who maintained
the epistolary practice were made available. However, it should be noted that the epistolary
practice can already be found in the societies of the ancient Near East, in Hellenic Greece,
in the Roman empire, in the medieval Roman-Germanic, etc. There is undoubtedly a vast amount
of documentation that is presented to the historian interested in producing private,
intellectual, political biographies, among the many other dimensions that this type of
source brings together.
Published:
2017-10-02
