استراتژی‌های قرون وسطایی درخواست از شمال آفریقا تا اوراسیا (کتاب‌های گلوب قرون وسطی)

This volume in The Medieval Globe Books series surveys the distinctive but also shared rhetorical practices that characterize written requests for intercession, support, and patronage across many languages, cultures, and forms of interaction. Examples range from mundane requests to diplomatic negotiations, preserved in a variety of material media: potsherds, papyrus, paper, administrative handbooks, chronicles, and letter collections. Each contribution focuses on one textual sample or corpus of letters, providing new English translations as well as editions of the original texts in cases where no previous edition is available. Together, they represent the textual conventions and innovations of learned and vernacular epistolary traditions from many regions of North Africa and Eurasia, from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries CE. COVER 1 Contents 5 List of Illustrations 7 Birte Kristiansen and Petra M. Sijpesteijn – How to Ask in the Medieval World: An Introduction 9 Hannah-Lena Hagemann – “The Caliph Calls You to the Book of God” 15 Petra M. Sijpesteijn – Maintaining Friendship and Commercial Relations in Eighth-Century Egypt 39 Edmund Hayes – Between Practical Petitioning and Divine Intervention 59 Aurélien Montel – Forging Historical and Diplomatic Ties in the Islamic West 75 Cecilia Palombo and Eline Scheerlinck – Asking for a Friend 91 Oded Zinger – Gender and the Art of Asking 111 Jialong Liu – Hidden Private Entreaties behind Two Public Steles in the Mid-Tang Dynasty 137 Beverly Bossler – Ghostwriting and Patronage-Seeking Letters in Song Dynasty China, 960–1279 155 Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo – Beyond Epistolary Standards? 171 Margreet Brandsma – Supplication, Authority, Militancy 191 Index 215