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Contemporary theories of communication forget that messages incite us erotically. Information as such is not important, what counts most is the message, because we must first believe.
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2. It is also important here to take note of the importance of the metaphor of the heart. Cf. G. Bauer, Clnustrum anintae, 1973, Munich: Fink Verlag.
3. M. Béjart, L’Autre chant de la danse. ‘Ce qui la nuit me dit’, 1974, Paris: Flammarion, p. 181.
5. This reference forces us to return to elementary questions of notarial practice. For a rigorous general work on the subject, see M. Amelotti and G. Costamagna, Alle origini del notariato italiano (1975) Rome: Consiglio nazionale del notariato.
7. On these questions, see E. Ruhe, De Amasio ad Amasiam. Zur Gattungsgeschichte des mittelalterlichen Liebesbriefes (1975) Munich: W. Fink Verlag.
8. E. Könsgen, Epistolae duorum amantium. Briefe Abälards und Heloises? (1974) Leiden: Brill.
10. Origen has his place, albeit a bizarre place, in the historicist discussions of the genesis of heresies. See, for example, H. Crouzel, ‘Origène est-il la source du catharisme?’ (1979) 80 Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique 3–28.
12. Text taken from the work of a great specialist: P. Nautin, Origène. Sa vie, son oeuvre (1977) Paris: Beauchesne, p. 45.
14. In scholarly terms, the anecdotal legend of a letter of Christ’s which falls from the sky is extremely complex. It is tied to other traditions (for example, that of a dream of the Virgin Mary); it also interests scholars of Eastern as well as Western Christianity. Since the work of P. Delehaye in 1899, studies have multiplied, tracing the diffusion of this letter in the form of duplicate talismans (which were still carried by combatants in 1914-18). Cf. A. Closs, ‘Himmelsbriefe. Beitrag zur Enwicklung der Sonntagsepistel’, in Festschrift für Wolfgang Stammler (1953) Berlin-Bielefeld: E. Schmidt Verlag, pp. 22–8.
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Goodrich, P. (1997). Protocol of the Love Letter. In: Goodrich, P. (eds) Law and the Unconscious. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25974-8_4
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