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Friendship in Medieval Iberia - Historical, Legal and Literary Perspectives (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Friendship in Medieval Iberia - Historical, Legal and Literary Perspectives (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Private and public relationships - frequently labelled as
friendships - have always played a crucial role in human societies.
Yet, over the centuries ideas and meanings of friendship
transformed, adapting to the political and social climates of
different periods. Changing concepts and practices of friendship
characterized the intellectual, social, political and cultural
panorama of medieval Europe, including that of thiteenth-century
Iberia. Subject of conquests and 'Reconquest', land of convivencia,
but also of political instability, as well as of secular and
religious international power-struggles: the articulation of
friendship within its borders is a particularly fraught subject to
study. Drawing on some of the encyclopaedic vernacular masterpieces
produced in the scriptorium of 'The Wise' King, Alfonso X of
Castile (1252-84), this study explores the political, religious and
social networks, inter-faith and gender relationships, legal
definitions, as well as bonds of tutorship and companionship, which
were frequently defined through the vocabulary and rhetoric of
friendship. This study demonstares how the values and meanings of
amicitia, often associated with classical, Roman, Visigothic and
Eastern traditions, were transformed to adapt to Alfonso X's
cultural projects and political propaganda. This book contributes
to the study of the history of emotions and cultural histories of
the Middle Ages, while also emphasizing how Iberia was a
peripheral, but still vital, ring in a chiain which linked it to
the rest of Europe, while also occupying a central role in the
historical and cultural developments of the Western Mediterranean.
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