On Amistà
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4817-9 (ISBN)
Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers across late medieval Christian society friendship raised a number of social and ethical dilemmas that needed to be carefully negotiated. On Amistà analyses these dilemmas and looks at how Dante’s strategic articulations of friendship evolved across the phases of his literary career as he manoeuvred between different social groups and settings.
Elizabeth Coggeshall reveals that friendship was not an unequivocal moral good for the writers of late medieval Italy. Instead, it was an ambiguous term to be deployed strategically, describing a wide range of social relationships such as allies, collaborators, servants, patrons, rivals, and enemies. Drawing on the use of the language of friendship in the letters, correspondence poems, dedications, narratives, and treatises composed by Dante and his interlocutors, Coggeshall examines the way they skillfully negotiated around the dilemmas that friendship raised in the spheres of medieval Italian literary society. The book addresses instances of inclusivity and exclusivity, collaboration and self-interest, hierarchy and equality, and alterity and identity. Employing literary, historical, and sociological analysis, On Amistà presents a genealogy for the innovative and tactical use of the terms of friendship among the works of late medieval Italian authors.
Elizabeth Coggeshall is an assistant professor of Italian at Florida State University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Dilemmas of Friendship in Dante’s Italy
Friendship’s Many Faces
A Sociological Approach: The Fields and Practices of Friendship
1. Exclusivity: The Piazza
Friendship as Civic Medicine
Creating Networks
The Ship of Friendship
Friendship’s Secret Chambers
Epilogue
2. Self-Interest: The University
Language and Amicabilitas
The Ciceronian Turn
Amicita as Disinterested Collaboration
Amicitia as Self-Interested Sponsorship
Abandoning Amicitia
3. Hierarchy: The Court
Friendship in the Patronage Economy
Negotiating Inequality
The Game of Honour
Managing Reciprocity
The Gratuitous Gift
4. Difference: The Afterlife
Inferno: Against the Other
Purgatorio: Beside the Other
Paradiso: Beyond the Other
The Eclipse of Friendship
Epilogue: Friendship’s Afterlife in Early Humanism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Toronto Italian Studies |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 157 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4817-6 / 1487548176 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4817-9 / 9781487548179 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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