Friendship in the Middle Ages and early modern age explorations of a fundamental ethical discourse / edited by Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge.
| Other author | Classen, Albrecht. |
| Other author | Sandidge, Marilyn, 1952- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, |
| Description | ix, 802 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 6 Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 6. ^A765714 |
| Contents | Introduction: friendship : the quest for a human -- Friendship of mutual perfecting in Augustine's confessions and the failure of classical amicitia / C. Stephen Jaeger -- The gift of friendship : beneficial and poisonous : friendships in the Byzantine Greek passion of Sergius and Bacchus / Stavroula Constantinou -- Where textual bodies meet : Anglo-Saxon women's epistolary friendships / Lisa M. C. Weston -- Sapienter amare poterimus : on rhetoric and friendship in the letters of Heloise and Abelard / Jennifer Constantine-Jackson -- Peter the Venerable and secular friendship / Marc Saurette -- Mysterious friends in the prayers and letters of Anselm of Canterbury / R. Jacob McDonie -- Monastic friendship in theory and in action in the twelfth century / Julian P. Haseldine -- Ideological friendship in the Middle Ages : Bonizo of Sutri and his liber ad amicum / John A. Dempsey -- Friendship in the heroic epic : Ruedegêr in the Nibelungenlied / Albrecht Classen -- Spiritual friendship in the works of Alfonso X of Castile : images of interaction between the sacred and spiritual worlds of thirteenth-century / Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo -- The spiritual friendship of Henry Suso and Elsbeth Stagel / David F. Tinsley -- Engendering obligation : sworn brotherhood and love rivalry in medieval English romance / Robert Stretter -- Talking bird and gentle heart : female homosocial bonding in Chaucer's "squire's tale" / Sara Deutch Schotland -- Sovereign fathers and sovereign friends in Hamlet and Michel de Montaigne's "of friendship" / Theodore Kaouk -- Die zwei Freunde des Leonardo da Vinci : eine kunsthistorische Fallstudie (with an English abstract) / Miriam Sarah Marotzki -- Friendship and good counsel : the discourses of friendship and Parrhesia in Francis Bacon's the essayes or counsels, civill and morall / Stella Achilleos -- Painted friends : political interests and the transformation of international learned sociability / Vera Keller -- "If I must example bee" : Donne's Petrarchan heart as speculum amicitiae / L. Bellee Jones -- George Herbert's friendship with Christ in the Temple (1633) / Jean-Christophe Van Thienen -- Friendship and enmity to God and nation : the complexities of Jewish-gentile relations in the Whitehall conference of 1655 / Andrew Crome. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [779]-781) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010053568 |
| ISBN | 9783110253979 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 3110253976 (alk. paper) |
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