Friendship in Medieval Europe

List of Contributors

vii

Preface

Acknowledgement

xiii

Abbreviations

Introduction

xvii

Part One: Foundations of Christian Friendship

The Theory of Friendship in the Latin Middle Ages: Hermeneutics, Contextualization and the Transmission and Reception of Ancient Texts and Ideas, from c. AD 350 to c. 1500

(42)

James McEvoy

`He who has friends can have no friend': Classical and Christian Perspectives on the Limits to Friendship

(23)

Eoin G. Cassidy

Friendship in Absence - Some Patristic Views

(23)

Carolinne White

Part Two: Studies of Friendship and Friendship Networks in the Early and Central Middle Ages

Friendship and Political Order

(15)

Gerd Althoff

Friends and Friendship in Anglo-Saxon Charters

106

(18)

Julia Barrow

`Beatus homo qui invenit amicum.' The Concept of Friendship in Early Medieval Letters of the Anglo-Saxon Tradition on the Continent (Boniface, Alcuin)

Continent (Boniface, Alcuin)

124

(13)

Hans-Werner Goetz

Friendship and the Byzantine Iconoclast Age

137

(16)

Peter Hatlie

John of Salisbury, Gerard Pucelle and Amicitia

153

(13)

Yoko Hirata

Friendship in Byzantium: Genre, Topos and Network

166

(19)

Margaret Mullett

The Friendship Circle of Bernold of Constance and the Dissemination of Gregorian Ideas in Late Eleventh-Century Germany

185

(14)

I.S. Robinson

Muriel and the Others...or Poems as Pledges of Friendship

199

(14)

Gabriela Signori

Rather of Verona and the Rhetoric of Well-ordered Friendship as Exemplified in the Praeloquia

213

(16)

Mark F. Williams

Part Three: Transformations and Discontinuities

Jean Gerson and the End of Spiritual Friendship: Dilemmas of Conscience

229

(22)

Brian Patrick McGuire

Complementary Humanistic Models of Marriage and Male Amicitia in Fifteenth-century Literature

251

(11)

Reginald Hyatte

Humanism and Friendship in Sixteenth-century Europe

262

(13)

Peter Burke

Supplementary Bibliography

275

(4)

Index

279

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