Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse

Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse
ISBN-10
3110253976
ISBN-13
9783110253979
Category
History
Pages
813
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Authors
Albrecht Classen, Marilyn Sandidge

Description

The aim of this English-language series on medieval studies is to establish a methodical, discerning connection between text analysis and cultural history. The series addresses the fundamental cultural themes of the medieval world from the perspective of literarystudies and the humanities. These fundamental themes are the culture-formative conceptualizations, world views, social structures and everyday conditions of medieval life, namely, childhood and old age, sexuality, religion, medicine, rituals, work, poverty and wealth, superstition, earth and cosmos, city and country, war, emotions, communication, travel etc.Fundamentals of Medieval Culture pursues important current discussions in the field and provides a forum for interdisciplinary medieval research. The series is open to anthologies as well as monographs. The aim of the series is to present compendium-like works on the central topics of medieval cultural history that provide a sound overview of a limited subject area from the perspective of various disciplines. On the whole, the series thus presents an encyclopedia of medieval literary and cultural history and its main topics.

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