The Arts of Friendship: The Idealization of Friendship in Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

The Arts of Friendship: The Idealization of Friendship in Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

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The Arts of Friendship focusses on literary representations of three categories of ideal friendship -- Christian, chivalric, and humanistic -- and the writers' strategies of establishing the ethical authority of their contemporary friends and codes on a par with antiquity's amicitia perfecta. The study identifies the extent to which writers acknowledged women as perfect friends. The selected texts under examination include, among others, hagiographies, works of Bernard of Clairvaux and Aelred of Rievaulx, The Quest of the Holy Grail, Thomas' Tristan, the Prose Lancelot, Ami and Amile, the Decameron, and L.B. Alberti's Dell'amicizia. Literary comparatists and historians, ethical historians, and students of rhetoric will find of interest the comparative study of the rhetorical topos of perfect friendship, the varied ethical criteria inherent there, and the writers' strategies for representing and authorizing an idea.

The Arts of Friendship: The Idealization of Friendship in Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History),Reginald Hyatte,Brill Academic Publishers,9004100180,Friendship in literature,History and criticism,Interior Design - General,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature, Medieval,Medieval,Medieval Literature - History And Criticism,Sociology,Special Subjects In Literature,French,Italian,Latin,Literary studies: classical, early & medieval,Poetry & poets,c 1000 CE to c 1500

Book Contents:

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3. The Encyclopaedia of Islam A-B (Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition)
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5. The Gospel Behind the Gospels: Current Studies on Q (Novum Testamentum, Supplements, 75)
6. The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch): In Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha)
7. The Idea of History in Rabbinic Judaism (Brill Reference Library of Judaism)
8. The Introduction of Arabic Philosophy into Europe (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)
9. The Javanese Candi: Function and Meaning (Studies in Asian Art and Archaeology, Vol 17)
10. The Jews in Rome: 1536-1551 (Studia Post-Biblica)

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