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Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience, 350-1250
Brian Patrick McGuire
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Paperback. Num Pages: 648 pages. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HBLC1; HRCX8. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 160 x 39. Weight in Grams: 890.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
1012g
Number of Pages
648
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801476723
SKU
V9780801476723
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Reviews for Friendship and Community: The Monastic Experience, 350-1250
Brian McGuire's Friendship and Community is by now a classic, the most important book to appear-ever-on the subject. Its sweep is broad. McGuire shows the development of medieval ideals of friendship and community from antiquity to the high Middle Ages. Current interest on the topic is high, in large part due to McGuire's book. -C. Stephen Jaeger, University of Illinois ... Read more