Friendship in Medieval Europe
Title | Friendship in Medieval Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Haseldine |
Publisher | Alan Sutton Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Civilization, Medieval |
ISBN | 9780750917209 |
Friendship in the Middle Ages carried a meaning far removed from the modern concept of a development of personal sympathies between individuals. It was cultivated formally and implied obligations and bonds of mutual support. In a society where, for example, party politics did not exist, friendship had a clear role in the formation of social networks and political organization.
Friendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Medieval Northern Europe, c. 1000-1200
Title | Friendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Medieval Northern Europe, c. 1000-1200 PDF eBook |
Author | Lars Hermanson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2019-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004401210 |
In this book Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking also affected people’s social identity and political action behaviour in medieval Northern Europe, c. 1000-1200.
Friendship in Medieval Iberia
Title | Friendship in Medieval Iberia PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2014-11-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1472412028 |
This book contributes to the study of the history of emotions and cultural histories of the Middle Ages, while also adding another crucial piece to the broader historiographical debate currently challenging the most traditional view of the Iberian Peninsula’s ‘exceptionalism’. This interdisciplinary study considers whether Iberia should be rather considered as a peripheral, but still vital, ring in a chain which linked it to the rest of Europe, while occupying a central role in the historical and cultural developments of the Western Mediterranean.
Friendship in Medieval Iberia
Title | Friendship in Medieval Iberia PDF eBook |
Author | Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2016-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317132572 |
Private and public relationships - frequently labelled as friendships - have always played a crucial role in human societies. Yet, over the centuries ideas and meanings of friendship transformed, adapting to the political and social climates of different periods. Changing concepts and practices of friendship characterized the intellectual, social, political and cultural panorama of medieval Europe, including that of thiteenth-century Iberia. Subject of conquests and 'Reconquest', land of convivencia, but also of political instability, as well as of secular and religious international power-struggles: the articulation of friendship within its borders is a particularly fraught subject to study. Drawing on some of the encyclopaedic vernacular masterpieces produced in the scriptorium of 'The Wise' King, Alfonso X of Castile (1252-84), this study explores the political, religious and social networks, inter-faith and gender relationships, legal definitions, as well as bonds of tutorship and companionship, which were frequently defined through the vocabulary and rhetoric of friendship. This study demonstares how the values and meanings of amicitia, often associated with classical, Roman, Visigothic and Eastern traditions, were transformed to adapt to Alfonso X’s cultural projects and political propaganda. This book contributes to the study of the history of emotions and cultural histories of the Middle Ages, while also emphasizing how Iberia was a peripheral, but still vital, ring in a chiain which linked it to the rest of Europe, while also occupying a central role in the historical and cultural developments of the Western Mediterranean.
Family, Friends and Followers
Title | Family, Friends and Followers PDF eBook |
Author | Gerd Althoff |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2004-06-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521779340 |
A study of how bonds of kinship, friendship and lordship shaped medieval European political life.
Ami and Amile
Title | Ami and Amile PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780472066476 |
An expressive and illuminating translation of the Old French poem, shedding light on the idea of friendship in medieval Europe
Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300–1800
Title | Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300–1800 PDF eBook |
Author | L. Gowing |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2005-10-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230524338 |
This ground-breaking volume explores the terrain of friendship against the historical backdrop of early modern Europe. In these thought-provoking essays the terms of friendship are explored - from the most intimate and erotically charged to the reciprocities of village life. This is a rich offering in social and cultural history that is attuned to the pervasive language of religion. A hidden history is revealed - of friendships that we have lost, and of friendships starkly, and movingly, familiar.