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The Arts of Friendship
The Idealization of Friendship in Medieval and Early Renaissance Literature
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 50
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The Arts of Friendship focusses on literary representations of three categories of ideal friendship â Christian, chivalric, and humanistic â 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 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.
Reginald Hyatte, Ph.D. (1971) in Romance Languages, the University of Pennsylvania, is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa. He published previously Laughter for the Devil: The Trials of Gilles de Rais and L'Harmonie des sphères.
"This book is an important contribution to the study of ethics in medieval literary culture; more specifically, it is the only detailed study of medieval treatises on friendship and their relationship to medieval literature...it will be a useful guide to medieval definitions and representations of friendship."
Ullrich Langer, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1995.
"...an inspiring help to grasp a very complex both historical, cultural, and philosophical problem...the priceless presentation of the material and indispensable description of textsâ¦"
Gerhard B. Winkler, INTAMS, 1997.
"There is much to be learned from this wide-ranging studyâ¦"
David Marsh, Speculum - A Journal for Medieval Studies, 1996.
"Hyatte has traced a theme which interested both scholarly and popular writers throughout the ages and shows how it is constantly changing and yet harking back to what has gone before. This is a book for which many medievalists will be extremely grateful."
Peter S. Noble, Medium Ãvum.
Ullrich Langer, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1995.
"...an inspiring help to grasp a very complex both historical, cultural, and philosophical problem...the priceless presentation of the material and indispensable description of textsâ¦"
Gerhard B. Winkler, INTAMS, 1997.
"There is much to be learned from this wide-ranging studyâ¦"
David Marsh, Speculum - A Journal for Medieval Studies, 1996.
"Hyatte has traced a theme which interested both scholarly and popular writers throughout the ages and shows how it is constantly changing and yet harking back to what has gone before. This is a book for which many medievalists will be extremely grateful."
Peter S. Noble, Medium Ãvum.
Those interested in relationships between ancient and early-modern literature, comparative literature, rhetorical theory and practice, moral philosophy, and problems of representation. Academic libraries and educated laymen.