The Arts of Friendship The Idealization of Friendship in Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature |
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| Author:
| Hyatte, Reginald |
| Series title: | Studies in Intellectual History |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-10018-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1994 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $190.95 |
Book Description:
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This comparative study focuses on literary representations in selected texts of three categories of ideal friendship -- Christian, chivalric, and humanistic -- and the writers' strategies for establishing the ethical authority of their model friends on a par with antiquity's amici perfecti.
This comparative study focuses on literary representations in selected texts of three categories of ideal friendship -- Christian, chivalric, and humanistic -- and the writers' strategies for establishing the ethical authority of their model friends on a par with antiquity's amici perfecti.