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Politeness and impoliteness in Coptic documents The correspondence of the monk Frange in 8th century Thebes

par Cromwell, Jennifer;Delattre, Alain
Editeur scientifique Almansa-Villatoro, Vicky;Motte, Aurore
Référence Exploring (Im)politeness in Ancient Egyptian Texts, Brill, Leyde, page (16)
Publication A Paraître, 2025

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The exceptional dossier of the monk Frange, who lived on the Theban mountain at the beginning of the 8th century, has preserved several hundred Coptic letters on ostracon. In these letters the monk goes from the most exquisite politeness to extreme rudeness. Playing on the codes of language and epistolography of his time, whose codes he does not hesitate to break, he expresses the full range of his feelings, from exhalted joy to cold anger. In addition to the letters that Frange himself wrote are those written by a range of other individuals, prominent among whom are a number of women. This article presents the first examination of politeness in this corpus, focussing first on Frange’s means of expressing politeness or rudeness in his messages, and second on the strategies employed by the women who wrote to him.