Aspecte privind scrierea epistolară din Transilvania (sec. XIV-XVII)
Aspects concerning Letter Writing in Transylvania (14th-17th Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: The epistolary writing known from Roman antiquity was taken over by Christian writings with the same philosophical meaning. During the Middle Ages it receives new connotations, a lot of textbooks and formulary-books outlining the structure of this act. The term epistola was not used in Transylvania, being preferred other designations, such as littera, litterae missiles. Written by private individuals but also by the chancelleries of some institutions at the end of the 15th century, they bear the signature of the issuer as well as his seal. During the era of the Principality litterae missiles appear in the debates of the estates assemblies being generally considered as evidence of illegitimate interventions for solving a number of legal disputes.

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