Introduction: Friendship—The Quest for a Human Ideal and Value: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Time

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Friendship—The Quest for a Human Ideal and Value: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Time 1
4. Chapter 1 Friendship of Mutual Perfecting in Augustine’s Confessions and the Failure of Classical amicitia 185
5. Chapter 2 The Gift of Friendship: Beneficial and Poisonous: Friendships in the Byzantine Greek Passion of Sergius and Bacchus 201
6. Chapter 3 Where Textual Bodies Meet: Anglo-Saxon Women’s Epistolary Friendships 231
7. Chapter 4 Sapienter amare poterimus: On Rhetoric and Friendship in the Letters of Heloise and Abelard 247
8. Chapter 5 Peter the Venerable and Secular Friendship 281
9. Chapter 6 Mysterious Friends in the Prayers and Letters of Anselm of Canterbury 309
10. Chapter 7 Monastic Friendship in Theory and in Action in the Twelfth Century 349
11. Chapter 8 Ideological Friendship In The Middle Ages: Bonizo of Sutri and His Liber Ad Amicum 395
12. Chapter 9 Friendship in the Heroic Epic: Ruedegêr in the Nibelungenlied 429
13. Chapter 10 Spiritual Friendship in the Works of Alfonso X of Castile: Images of Interaction Between the Sacred and Spiritual Worlds of Thirteenth-Century 445
14. Chapter 11 The Spiritual Friendship of Henry Suso and Elsbeth Stagel 477
15. Chapter 12 Engendering Obligation: Sworn Brotherhood and Love Rivalry in Medieval English Romance 501
16. Chapter 13 Talking Bird and Gentle Heart: Female Homosocial Bonding in Chaucer’s “Squire’s Tale” 525
17. Chapter 14 Sovereign Fathers and Sovereign Friends in Hamlet and Michel de Montaigne’s “Of Friendship” 543
18. Chapter 15 Die zwei Freunde des Leonardo da Vinci: Eine kunsthistorische Fallstudie (with an English abstract) 561
19. Chapter 16 Friendship and Good Counsel: The Discourses of Friendship and Parrhesia in Francis Bacon’s The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall 643
20. Chapter 17 Painted Friends: Political Interests and the Transformation of International Learned Sociability 675
21. Chapter 18 “If I must example bee”: Donne’s Petrarchan Heart as Speculum Amicitiae 707
22. Chapter 19 George Herbert’s Friendship with Christ in The Temple (1633) 727
23. Chapter 20 Friendship and Enmity to God and Nation: The Complexities of Jewish-Gentile Relations in the Whitehall Conference of 1655 749
24. Illustrations 779
25. Contributors 783
26. Index: Persons, Subjects, Titles, Concepts 789