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Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience, 350-1250, With a New Introduction - Couverture souple

McGuire, Brian Patrick

 
9780801476723: Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience, 350-1250, With a New Introduction
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801476720 ISBN 13 : 9780801476723
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2010

Synopsis

"I assume that historical sources can convey human feeling, even though it is fruitless to psychologize individual friends or to reach complete explanations about their motives. I simply accept that because medieval Christians believed in friendship and felt the need for it, some of them both practiced and lived out friendships."--from the new Introduction

Human beings have always formed personal friendships. Some cultures have left behind the evidence of philosophical discussion; some have provided only private or semipublic letters. By comparing these, one discerns the effect exercised by the society in which the writers lived, its opportunities, and its restrictions. The cloistered monks of medieval Europe, who have bequeathed a rich literary legacy on the subject, have always had to take into account the overwhelming fact of community. Brian Patrick McGuire finds that in seeking friends and friendship, medieval men and women sought self-knowledge, the enjoyment of life, the commitment of community, and the experience of God.

First published in 1988, Friendship and Community has been widely debated, inspiring the current interest among medievalists in the subject of friendship. It has also informed other fields within medieval history, including monasticism, spirituality, psychology, and the relationship between self and community. In a new introduction to the Cornell edition, McGuire surveys the critical reaction to the original edition and subsequent research on the subject of medieval friendship.

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À propos de l'auteur

Brian Patrick McGuire is Professor of Medieval History at the Institute for Culture and Identity at Roskilde University. He is the author of Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801476720
ISBN 13 
9780801476723
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
646
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