Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse

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Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse

Edited by: Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2011

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Volume 6 | Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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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.

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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA; Marilyn Sandidge, Westfield State University, USA.

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"In den 20 Beitägen dieses informativen Sammelbandes werden unterschiedliche Bewertungen, Konstruktionen und Funktionen von Freundschaft im Kloster und am Hof, in weltlichen Erzählungen und geistlichen Briefen, in lat. Traktaten und volkssprachlichen Lyriken, in Text und Bild, in Politik und Seelsorge von der Spätantike bis in 17./18. Jh. und von Byzanz über Italien und Spanien bis Frankreich, Deutschland und England vorgestellt."
Rüdiger Schnell in: Germanistik Redaktion 2011, Band 52, Heft 1-2

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Introduction: Friendship—The Quest for a Human Ideal and Value: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chapter 1 Friendship of Mutual Perfecting in Augustine’s Confessions and the Failure of Classical amicitia C. Stephen Jaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Chapter 2 The Gift of Friendship: Beneficial and Poisonous: Friendships in the Byzantine Greek Passion of Sergius and Bacchus Stavroula Constantinou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Chapter 3 Where Textual Bodies Meet: Anglo-Saxon Women’s Epistolary Friendships Lisa M. C. Weston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
Chapter 4 Sapienter amare poterimus: On Rhetoric and Friendship in the Letters of Heloise and Abelard Jennifer Constantine-Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Chapter 5 Peter the Venerable and Secular Friendship Marc Saurette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
Chapter 6 Mysterious Friends in the Prayers and Letters of Anselm of Canterbury R. Jacob McDonie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
Chapter 7 Monastic Friendship in Theory and in Action in the Twelfth Century Julian P. Haseldine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Chapter 8 Ideological Friendship In The Middle Ages: Bonizo of Sutri and His Liber Ad Amicum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
Chapter 9 Friendship in the Heroic Epic: Ruedegêr in the Nibelungenlied Albrecht Classen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	429
Chapter 10 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	445
Chapter 11 The Spiritual Friendship of Henry Suso and Elsbeth Stagel David F. Tinsley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	477
Chapter 12 Engendering Obligation: Sworn Brotherhood and Love Rivalry in Medieval English Romance Robert Stretter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	501
Chapter 13 Talking Bird and Gentle Heart: Female Homosocial Bonding in Chaucer’s “Squire’s Tale” Sara Deutch Schotland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	525
Chapter 14 Sovereign Fathers and Sovereign Friends in Hamlet and Michel de Montaigne’s “Of Friendship” Theodore Kaouk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	543
Chapter 15 Die zwei Freunde des Leonardo da Vinci: Eine kunsthistorische Fallstudie (with an English abstract) Miriam Sarah Marotzki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	561
Chapter 16 Friendship and Good Counsel: The Discourses of Friendship and Parrhesia in Francis Bacon’s The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall Stella Achilleos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	643
Chapter 17 Painted Friends: Political Interests and the Transformation of International Learned Sociability Vera Keller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	675
Chapter 18 “If I must example bee”: Donne’s Petrarchan Heart as Speculum Amicitiae L. Bellee Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	707
Chapter 19 George Herbert’s Friendship with Christ in The Temple (1633) Jean-Christophe Van Thienen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	727
Chapter 20 Friendship and Enmity to God and Nation: The Complexities of Jewish-Gentile Relations in the Whitehall Conference of 1655 Andrew Crome Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	749
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	779
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	783
Index: Persons, Subjects, Titles, Concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	789

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eBook published on:

March 29, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110253986

Hardcover published on:

March 17, 2011

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110253979

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Front matter:

9

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802

Illustrations:

17

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110253986

eBook ISBN: 9783110253986

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110253979

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Friendship in Literature (Middle Ages and Early Modern Times)

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Academics (German, Medieval, Literary and Cultural Studies), Libraries, Institutes

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Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

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