Friendship in the Middle Ages and early modern age explorations of a fundamental ethical discourse /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Classen, Albrecht, Sandidge, Marilyn, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2010.
Series:Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 6.
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Table of 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.