Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Courtly Conflict and the Passions 1
5. PART ONE Friendship and Pleasure
6. Chapter One Classical Rhetoric and Vernacular Theories of Social Integration 27
7. Chapter Two Alfonso de Madrigal, el Tostado, on the Politics of Friendship 43
8. Chapter Three Reason and Its Discontents 59
9. PART TWO Compassion and Consolation
10. Chapter Four Impassibility, Pity, Community 89
11. Chapter Five Passionate Quotation 108
12. Chapter Six The Impasse of the Courtly Reward 148
13. Chapter Seven Confession, Consolation, and the Poetics of Hylomorphism 180
14. Conclusion 206
15. Notes 219
16. Works Cited 257
17. Index 281