Research Catalog

Title

Friendship in the Middle Ages and early modern age : explorations of a fundamental ethical discourse / edited by Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Classen, Albrecht.
• Sandidge, Marilyn, 1952-

Description

ix, 802 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 6

Uniform Title

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 6.

Subjects

• Discourse ethics
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
• European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
• Friendship in literature
• Friendship

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [779]-781) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 12-3328

ISBN

• 9783110253979 (alk. paper)
• 3110253976 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2010053568

OCLC

695560155

Title

Friendship in the Middle Ages and early modern age : explorations of a fundamental ethical discourse / edited by Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge.

Imprint

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2010.

Series

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 6

Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 6.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [779]-781) and index.

Added Author

Classen, Albrecht.

Sandidge, Marilyn, 1952-

Research Call Number

JFE 12-3328