art of the network
Subtitle: strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence
By: Paul McLean.
Series: Politics, history, and culture
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham [N.C.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822341000; 9780822341178
Subjects: Social networks -- Italy -- Florence -- History; Patronage, Political -- Italy -- Florence -- History; Patron and client -- Italy -- Florence -- History; Letter writing, Italian -- History; Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence; Florence (Italy) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The principles of networking as a social process; title: The rhetoric and design of Florentine letter writing; title: The socially contested concept of honor; title: What gets said when in patronage letters; title: The dynamics of office seeking; title: Friends of friends : raccomandazione as rhetoric and as constitutive principle; title: Patronage and the stalled transformation of the state; title: "Servants and slaves in everything and for everything" : Renaissance networking and the emergent modern self?; title: Conclusion: Culture and the network.