A sociological study of networking that explores the relationship between networks and agency and that analyzes a rich historical antecedent of contemporary networking and the concept of self that accompanies it.
A sociological study of networking that explores the relationship between networks and agency and that analyzes a rich historical antecedent of contemporary networking and the concept of self that accompanies it.
List of Tables and Figures ix Preface xi 1. The Principles of Networking as a Social Process 1 2. The Rhetoric and Design of Florentine Letter Writing 35 3. The Socially Contested Concept of Honor 59 4. What Gets Said When in Patronage Letters 90 5. The Dynamics of Office Seeking 121 6. Friends of Friends: Raccomandazione as Rhetoric and as Constitutive Principle 150 7. Patronage and the Stalled Transformation of the State 170 8. “Servants and Slaves in Everything and for Everything”: Renaissance Networking and the Emergent Modern Self? 193 Conclusion: Culture and the Network 224 Notes 231 Bibliography 255 Index 279
List of Tables and Figures ix Preface xi 1. The Principles of Networking as a Social Process 1 2. The Rhetoric and Design of Florentine Letter Writing 35 3. The Socially Contested Concept of Honor 59 4. What Gets Said When in Patronage Letters 90 5. The Dynamics of Office Seeking 121 6. Friends of Friends: Raccomandazione as Rhetoric and as Constitutive Principle 150 7. Patronage and the Stalled Transformation of the State 170 8. “Servants and Slaves in Everything and for Everything”: Renaissance Networking and the Emergent Modern Self? 193 Conclusion: Culture and the Network 224 Notes 231 Bibliography 255 Index 279
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