Download or read book Textual Conversations in the Renaissance written by Zachary Lesser and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of leading scholars here investigate the varied ways in which the Renaissance incorporated conversation and dialogue into its literary, political, juridical, religious, and social practices. Across a range of texts and genres, the essays focus on the importance of conversation to early modern understandings of ethics; on literary history itself as an ongoing authorial conversation; and on the material and textual technologies that enabled early modern conversations.