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Friendship and community : the monastic experience, 350-1250 / by Brian Patrick McGuire.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Description: lxxi, 571 pagine ; 23 cmContent type:
  • testo (txt)
Media type:
  • senza mediazione (n)
Carrier type:
  • volume (nc)
ISBN:
  • 9780801476723
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 271.009/02 22
LOC classification:
  • BX2435 .M397 2010
Other classification:
  • BQX 6821.M39 2010
Contents:
The wisdom of the Eastern Fathers -- The Western Fathers and the search for community -- The monk and the wanderer : varieties of early medieval friendship -- The eclipse of monastic friendship, c. 850-c.1120 -- Reform and renewal : new impulses towards friendship, c. 1050-c. 1120 -- The age of friendship : networks of friends, c. 1120-c. 1180 -- Aelred of Rievaulx and the limits of friendship -- Continuity and change : the persistence of friendship, c. 1180-c. 1250.

Include bibliografia (pagine 514-541) e indice.

The wisdom of the Eastern Fathers -- The Western Fathers and the search for community -- The monk and the wanderer : varieties of early medieval friendship -- The eclipse of monastic friendship, c. 850-c.1120 -- Reform and renewal : new impulses towards friendship, c. 1050-c. 1120 -- The age of friendship : networks of friends, c. 1120-c. 1180 -- Aelred of Rievaulx and the limits of friendship -- Continuity and change : the persistence of friendship, c. 1180-c. 1250.