Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

, by Classen, Albrecht; Sandidge, Marilyn

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ISBN: 9783110253979 | 3110253976
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Copyright: 3/17/2011

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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.

Introduction: Friendship-The Quest for a Human Ideal and Value: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Time
Early Modern Perspectives	p. 1
Friendship in Antiquity	p. 5
Marcus Tullius Cicero	p. 8
Friendship in Late Antiquity: Bishop (Saint) Augustine	p. 14
Friendship from the Early Middle Ages to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries	p. 18
Friendship in Twelfth-Century English Monastic Circles: The Case of Aelred of Rievaulx	p. 30
Theological Approaches to Friendship: Thomas Aquinas	p. 37
A Variety of Voices: Old and New. Retrospectives and Innovative Perspectives on Friendship	p. 40
Friendship and Women: Still a Somewhat Unchartered Territory	p. 47
The Homosocial vs. the Homoerotic	p. 48
Friendship at the Courts	p. 49
Friendship between People and Animals: Interconnectedness of Culture and Nature	p. 51
Vernacular Medieval Spanish Commentators	p. 52
Friendship in the Italian World of Intellectuals: The Case of Brunetto Latini	p. 57
Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch, as Proponents of the Ideal of Friendship: Voices from the Early Italian Renaissance	p. 60
Religious Friendship in the Late Middle Ages: Thomas à Kempis	p. 68
Friendship in Late-Medieval German Literature: Sebastian Brant: A Last Hurrah for a Traditional Ethical Ideal?	p. 70
Friendship in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Literature: A Variety of Vernacular Voices	p. 71
Women as Friends in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Still a Thorny Issue	p. 81
Women and Friendship	p. 92
Early Modern Friendships: Additional Perspectives	p. 105
The Opinion of the Encyclopedists: At the Threshold of Modernity	p. 112
Some Concluding Remarks	p. 117
Summaries of the Contributions to This Volume	p. 118
The Decline of the Friendship Ideal? The Transformation of a Trope. Some Final Reflections	p. 175
Some Dedicatory Words in the Spirit of Friendship	p. 182
Friendship of Mutual Perfecting in Augustine's Confessions and the Failure of Classical amicitia	p. 185
The Gift of Friendship: Beneficial and Poisonous: Friendships in the Byzantine Greek Passion of Sergius and Bacchus	p. 201
Where Textual Bodies Meet: Anglo-Saxon Women's Epistolary Friendships	p. 231
Sapienter amare poterimus: On Rhetoric and Friendship in the Letters of Heloise and Abelard	p. 247
Peter the Venerable and Secular Friendship	p. 281
Mysterious Friends in the Prayers and Letters of Anselm of Canterbury	p. 309
Monastic Friendship in Theory and in Action in the Twelfth Century	p. 349
Ideological Friendship In The Middle Ages: Bonizo of Sutri and His Liber Ad Amicum	p. 395
Friendship in the Heroic Epic: Ruedegêr in the Nibelungenlied	p. 429
Spiritual Friendship in the Works of Alfonso X of Castile: Images of Interaction Between the Sacred and Spiritual Worlds of Thirteenth-Century	p. 445
The Spiritual Friendship of Henry Suso and Elsbeth Stagel	p. 477
Engendering Obligation: Sworn Brotherhood and Love Rivalry in Medieval English Romance	p. 501
Talking Bird and Gentle Heart: Female Homosocial Bonding in Chaucer's ôSquire's Taleö	p. 525
Sovereign Fathers and Sovereign Friends in Hamlet and Michel de Montaigne's ôOf Friendshipö	p. 543
Die zwei Freunde des Leonardo da Vinci: Eine kunsthistorische Fallstudie (with an English abstract)	p. 561
Friendship and Good Counsel: The Discourses of Friendship and Parrhesia in Francis Bacon's The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall	p. 643
Painted Friends: Political Interests and the Transformation of International Learned Sociability	p. 675
ôIf I must example beeö: Donne's Petrarchan Heart as Speculum Amicitiae	p. 707
George Herbert's Friendship with Christ in The Temple (1633)	p. 727
Friendship and Enmity to God and Nation: The Complexities of Jewish-Gentile Relations in the Whitehall Conference of 1655	p. 749
Illustrations	p. 779
Contributors	p. 783
Index: Persons, Subjects, Titles, Concepts	p. 789
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