Friendship and sociability in premodern Europe
Subtitle: contexts, concepts, and expressions
By: edited by Amyrose McCue Gill and Sarah Rolfe Prodan
Contributors: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies; Friendship in Premodern Europe (1300 1700) Colloquium (2011 : Toronto, Ont.)
Series: Essays and studies -- 33; Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) -- 33.
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780772721709; 9780772721716
Subjects: Friendship; Congresses; History; Social networks; Foreign relations; Political culture
Notes: Papers based on the Friendship in Premodern Europe (1300 1700) colloquium held at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, October 14-15, 2011.

"This publication would not exist without the generous support for the Friendship in Premodern Europe (1300 1700) colloquium offered by so many institutions: The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Toronto)..."--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sarah Rolfe Prodan; title: "No greater pleasure in this life": the friendship of John Locke and Edward Clarke / Adriana Benzaquén; title: The theatre of friendship in early modern French memoirs: the case of Pontis / Malina Stefanovska; title: Dante's rhetoric of friendship from the Convivio to the Commedia / Francesco Ciabattoni; title: Ad comunis epystole lectionem: Pan-Italian Familiaritas and Petrarch's community of friends / Steven Baker; title: Syphilis, suffering and sodality: friendship and contagion in Renaissance Manuta / Sally Hickson; title: "Accompanied by a great number of their friends": warrior nobles and amitié during the French Wars of religion / Brian Sandberg; title: Pierre Bayle's quest for pacified relationships / Jean Bernier; title: Peace and friendship in early modern catholic Europe: towards a political history of human relations in counter-Reformation culture, 1580-1650 / Paolo Broggio; title: Matteo Ricci and his confucian friends: interfaith friendship in the clash of Asian and European humanisms / Hyun-Ah Kim; title: "To heal the world": commercial exchange as a form of friendship in Renaissance thought / David Harris Sacks.