... acquired humanist education by quoting from ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, French, and Italian, often on the theme of everlasting friendship. This essay looks closely at one album, owned by a German student attending law school at the University of Padua from...

...Benjamin A. Saltzman Mourning the death of a friend posed a problem for late Anglo-Saxon monasticism. Newly reformed under the authority of the Benedictine Rule and the Regularis Concordia , religious were precluded from developing personal friendships so as to protect a world in which all things...

... with other creatures. Like The Praise of Folly and Erasmus's writings on friendship and peace, As You Like It builds a multidimensional portrait of virtue as lively, gracious, embodied, performative, hospitable, and always open to irony — aware of the costs and conditions of virtue in the world. In his...

... goal.7 It is Galeholt’s love for Lancelot that changed all that. As a condition of Lancelot’s friendship, Galeholt surrenders to Arthur and renounces his plans for conquest. Though his vassals criticize his capitulation as shameful, Galeholt insists that he has won far more in gaining Lancelot’s...

... of the Atonement to friendship is apposite, given Abelard's theory, because the relationship he describes between author and reader (God and creatures, preacher and congregation, pastor and penitent) is like the relationship that has classically been described between friends. On the account of Cicero (106–43 BCE...

... disparities of status and power between patron and client.3 The structural kind dominates in the anthropological literature, concisely captured by Ernest Gellner: “Patronage is unsymmetrical, involving inequality of power.”4 In contrast, what I call transactional patronage resembles the “friendship...

... as their spokesman, cor- responding directly with James himself.10 The disagreement in 1584 was thus between two experts on Scottish affairs, both of whom identified the same problem the necessity of securing the friendship of James and his government but whose contrasting patronage networks and ideological...

... Scriptures  545 – 76 Rothman, E. Natalie Conversion and Convergence in the Venetian-­Ottoman Borderlands  602 – 33 Saltzman, Benjamin A. Writing Friendship, Mourning the Friend in Late Anglo-­Saxon Rules of Confraternity  251 – 91 Test, Edward M. “A dish fit for the gods”: Mexica...

... of ambas- sadors was especially useful to regimes supported by a still fragile consensus. Seignories and dynasties alike discovered in the game of reciprocal recogni- tions and support, of alliances and ties of friendship, an effective instru- ment for defending and legitimizing their dominion...

..., for example, that in otherwise misogynistic humanist marriage treatises, the classical ideal of perfect friendship as a union between equals intertwined with the traditional sacramental understanding of the husband and wife joined in “one flesh” (from Matt. 19:4  –  5; cf. Mark 10:6  –  8) to produce...

... of the virtues; it is only by way of the grace-­infused theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity, together with the infused moral virtues of temperance, courage, justice, and prudence, that persons are equipped to seek friendship with God as their final end.7 To be sure, then, magisterial...

.... de turcz, n.p. By permission tions. These friendship albums had a variety of functions, operating in part like passports since an illustrious signature could open doors. Many albums were also used to collect costume illustrations and allegorical figures. Painted with rich color...

... Spivak has recently invoked Jacques Derrida’s The Politics of Friendship to propose teleiopoesis as a poetic process adapted to our globalized present, in which discontinuous and distant collectivities may be drawn together by acts of the imagination that cross time and space.12 Teleiopoetic...

... powerfully for the enduring, profound affection and friendship of England and Spain. The dedication of his translation of Antonio Ortiz’s A Relation of the Solemnetie wherewith the Catholike Princes K. Phillip the III and Quene Margaret were receyued in the Inglish Colledge of Valladolid the 22...

... of these qualities, they gain greater legitimacy. Nevertheless, authors, translators, and printers are fully aware of the comic potential of these texts.76 322  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 43.2 / 2013 Other texts, most notably Edmund Tilney’s Flower of Friendship, use a scripted...

..., and written after Aglin himself had died, suggest the kind of intense friendship in a religious cause that is rep- resented in Quaker history by the early friendship of George Fox and James Nayler: his soule to him it was soe dearly knit in that true love that was of god devine...

... There he is, a cou- ple of times a chapter. I start to notice what he’s marking. He seldom varies from his terse command to “notice” text, but something happens at Augus- tine’s portrait of his friendship with an unnamed youth, and the story of his friend’s...

.... Haseldine, Julian, ed. Friendship in Medieval Europe. Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999. xxiii, 287 pp. $81.00. Helgerson, Richard. Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting. Chicago: University of Chicago...

.... Spiritual Friendship [De spiritali amicitia]. Trans- lated by Lawrence C. Braceland. Edited by Marsha L. Dutton. Cistercian Fathers Series, vol. 5. Trappist, Ky.: Cistercian Publications; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2010. 159 pp. Paper $19.95. Alighieri, Dante. La Vita Nuova. Translated...

.... The editors would like to thank 190 for continued support and friendship in this endeavor, especially Michael Uebel, who has been a model of energetic and generous intellectual comradeship. We would also like to thank Michael Cornett for his work on this issue. Notes 1 Karl Marx and Friedrich...