R. Jacob McDonie

Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred

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Produktbeschreibung

Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred covers approximately 1,200 years of literature. This is a book on "medieval literature" that foregrounds language as the agent for cultivating medieval friendship (from the first century BC to c. 1160 AD) in oratorical, ecclesiastical, monastic, and erotic contexts. Taking a different approach than many works in this area, which search for the lived experience of friends behind language, this book stands apart in looking at friendship's enactment through rhetorical language among classical and medieval authors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9781032240435
• ISBN-10: 1032240431
• Artikelnr.: 62950958

Autorenporträt

R. Jacob McDonie is Associate Professor of Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. He has published widely on medieval friendship in Latin religious contexts.

Inhaltsangabe

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Performing Friendship in Cicero's De
amicitiaChapter 2: Early Christian Friendship: Tradition and Innovation in
the Fourth CenturyChapter 3: Making Love in Language: Friendship in the
Carolingian EraChapter 4: The Drama of the Saints: Friendship in the
Prayers and Letters of Anselm of CanterburyChapter 5: Rhetorical Friendship
in the Letters of Heloise and AbelardChapter 6: The Ethics of Rhetoric and
Friendship in the Epistolae duorum amantiumand Related WorksChapter 7: "The
Effort itself Is Great": Performance, Sympathy, and Authority in Aelred of
Rievaulx's De spiritali amicitiaBibliography