摘要：Resumo: A carta nao e uma invencao dos seculos XVI e XVII, entretanto, e nesse periodo que adquire importanciacomo instrumento de comunicacao social; escrever cartas e uma pratica social da cultura escrita quese generaliza e populariza ao mesmo tempo em que uma parcela maior da populacao e alfabetizada e saocriados os sistemas escolares. Alem disso, e possivel apreender, atraves da materialidade da escritura epistolar,como os artefatos culturais implicados nas praticas de correspondencia sao postos em acao na erudicao,na caligrafia, na gramatica, no estilo, na arte epistolar, na construcao das sociabilidades e no pacto epistolar.Palavras.chave:Escrita epistolar; cultura escrita; praticas de correspondencia.Abstract: Letters were not invented in the 16th or the 17th century, however, it was during this period that theygained significance as an instrument of social communication; writing letters is a social practice in writingculture that achieved popularity as greater number of people became literate and school systems were created.Moreover, through the materiality of epistolary writing, it is possible to see how the cultural artifactsinvolved in correspondence practices are put into action in erudition, calligraphy, grammar, style, epistolaryart, sociability, and the covenant epistolary.
关键词：Epistolary writing; written culture; correspondence practices.
