Friendship and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Linguistic Performance of Intimacy from Cicero to Aelred

ISBN-13: 9781032240435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 242 str.

R. Jacob McDonie

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.