Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Reproduktion 2011
ISBN:
9783110253986
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9783110253979
Series Statement:
Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 6
Content:
Although it seems that erotic love generally was the prevailing topic in the medieval world and the Early Modern Age, parallel to this the Ciceronian ideal of friendship also dominated the public discourse, as this collection of essays demonstrates. Following an extensive introduction, the individual contributions explore the functions and the character of friendship from Late Antiquity (Augustine) to the 17th century. They show the spectrum of variety in which this topic appeared? not only in literature, but also in politics and even in painting
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [779]-781) and index
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Table of Contents; Introduction: Friendship-The Quest for a Human Ideal and Value: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Time; Chapter 1 Friendship of Mutual Perfecting in Augustine's Confessions and the Failure of Classical amicitia; Chapter 2 The Gift of Friendship: Beneficial and Poisonous: Friendships in the Byzantine Greek Passion of Sergius and Bacchus; Chapter 3 Where Textual Bodies Meet: Anglo-Saxon Women's Epistolary Friendships; Chapter 4 Sapienter amare poterimus: On Rhetoric and Friendship in the Letters of Heloise and Abelard; Chapter 5 Peter the Venerable and Secular Friendship
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Chapter 6 Mysterious Friends in the Prayers and Letters of Anselm of CanterburyChapter 7 Monastic Friendship in Theory and in Action in the Twelfth Century; Chapter 8 Ideological Friendship In The Middle Ages: Bonizo of Sutri and His Liber Ad Amicum; Chapter 9 Friendship in the Heroic Epic: Ruedegêr in the Nibelungenlied; Chapter 10 Spiritual Friendship in the Works of Alfonso X of Castile: Images of Interaction Between the Sacred and Spiritual Wo; Chapter 11 The Spiritual Friendship of Henry Suso and Elsbeth Stagel
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Chapter 12 Engendering Obligation: Sworn Brotherhood and Love Rivalry in Medieval English RomanceChapter 13 Schotland Talking Bird and Gentle Heart: Female Homosocial Bonding in Chaucer's "Squire's Tale"; Chapter 14 Sovereign Fathers and Sovereign Friends in Hamlet and Michel de Montaigne's "Of Friendship"; Chapter 15 Die zwei Freunde des Leonardo da Vinci: Eine kunsthistorische Fallstudie (with an English abstract); Chapter 16 Friendship and Good Counsel: The Discourses of Friendship and Parrhesia in Francis Bacon's The Essayes or Counsels,
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Chapter 17 Painted Friends: Political Interests and the Transformation of International Learned SociabilityChapter 18 "If I must example bee": Donne's Petrarchan Heart as Speculum Amicitiae; Chapter 19 George Herbert's Friendship with Christ in The Temple (1633); Chapter 20 Friendship and Enmity to God and Nation: The Complexities of Jewish-Gentile Relations in the Whitehall Conference of; Illustrations; Contributors; Index: Persons, Subjects, Titles, Concepts
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110253979
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Friendship in the middle ages and early modern age Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter, 2010 ISBN 3110253976
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110253979
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Freundschaft
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Geschichte 300-1655
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110253986
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Classen, Albrecht 1956-
