{"id":18827,"date":"2024-05-03T04:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T04:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=18827"},"modified":"2024-05-03T04:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T04:45:21","slug":"sorenson-2024-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/sorenson-2024-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorenson (2024 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"

David W. Sorenson
\n(Allen G. Berman, Numismatist<\/em>)<\/h2>\n

\u201cTaking it to the Mail Box:
\nA Fragment of a Fifteenth-Century Lawyer’s Mail Ledger\u201d<\/h2>\n

Abstract of Paper
\npresented at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies
\n(Kalamazoo, 2024)<\/h3>\n

Session on
\n\u201cLetters, Couriers, and Post Offices:
\nMail in the Medieval World\u201d<\/h4>\n

Co-Sponsored by Postal History at Kalamazoo
\nand the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organized by David W. Sorenson<\/h4>\n

2024 Congress Program<\/a><\/h4>\n

Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although the letters themselves are well known, and as a group are not uncommon, the details of their transit from sender to recipient are usually very obscure. This paper examines one small step on one small mail-chain, in this case a leaf from a ledger, listing letters sent by (or to?) a lawyer in Paris around 1480. As a scrap it can by itself tell little, but fortunately it survived along with a few other items, and we may be able to build up something of a picture of the type and volume of mail produced by such a firm.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Note<\/em>:\u00a0 We thank David for his many contributions over the years to the RGME.\u00a0 For example, he has frequently presented papers for Sessions sponsored and co-sponsored by the RGME at the ICMS, and papers and responses to our Symposia both in person and online.\u00a0 He has generously contributed expertise and images to our blog on Manuscript Studies<\/a> and to our gallery of images on Watermarks and the History of Paper<\/a>. Some of his papers are published on our website.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

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Private Collection, Courier delivering letter. German translation of Petrarch (1559).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David W. Sorenson (Allen G. Berman, Numismatist) \u201cTaking it to the Mail Box: A Fragment of a Fifteenth-Century Lawyer’s Mail Ledger\u201d Abstract of Paper presented at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2024) Session on \u201cLetters, Couriers, and Post Offices: Mail in the Medieval World\u201d Co-Sponsored by Postal History at Kalamazoo and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18828,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18827\/revisions\/18828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}