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

Title
Friendship in the Middle Ages and early modern age [electronic resource] : explorations of a fundamental ethical discourse / edited by Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge.
ISBN
3110253976 (alk. paper)
9783110253979
9783110253986 (e-book)
Published
Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2010.
Physical Description
ix, 802 p. ; 24 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2012
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.
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.
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