R Jacob McDonie

Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred

• Broschiertes Buch

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 in oratorical, ecclesiastical, monastic, and erotic contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• 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