Aus heutiger Sicht mag das Thema 'Freundschaft' fast trivial erscheinen, aber die BeitrĂ€ger zu diesem Band argumentieren aus unterschiedlichsten wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven, dass schon in der SpĂ€tantike, dann aber vor allem seit dem hohen Mittelalter Freundschaft zu einem zentralen Aspekt des öffentlichen Diskurses aufstieg, der wesentlich die öffentliche Auseinandersetzung um die ethischen und moralischen Werte bestimmte. WĂ€hrend die höfische Dichtung sich nur eher marginal mit Freundschaft beschĂ€ftigte und diese als mehr oder weniger gegeben ansah, spielte sie gerade unter den Intellektuellen und religiös Inspirierten eine zentrale Rolle. Das Vorbild Ciceros und die Aussagen der groĂen Theologen des Mittelalters sorgten dafĂŒr, dass das Interesse an Freundschaft stets weiter gepflegt wurde, wenngleich der idealistische Anspruch oftmals an den harten Tatsachen zerschellte, wie das Beispiel des Nibelungenlieds gut vor Augen fĂŒhrt. Im SpĂ€tmittelalter stieg jedoch die Zahl der kritischen Stimmen, die ĂŒber den Niedergang der Freundschaft klagten, und im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert galt Freundschaft ĂŒberwiegend als ein politisches Instrumentarium ohne groĂe idealistische Bedeutung. Der Diskurs wurde zwar weitergefĂŒhrt, FreundschaftsbĂŒnde wurden geschlossen, Freundschaftsalben gefĂŒhrt, aber die traditionelle WertschĂ€tzung scheint weitgehend verloren gegangen zu sein, bis es im 18. Jahrhundert zu einem Neuaufschwung kam, der aber hier nicht mehr berĂŒcksichtigt wird.

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Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse
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Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse
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- Introduction: FriendshipâThe Quest for a Human Ideal and Value: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Time
- Chapter 1 Friendship of Mutual Perfecting in Augustineâs Confessions and the Failure of Classical amicitia
- Chapter 2 The Gift of Friendship: Beneficial and Poisonous: Friendships in the Byzantine Greek Passion of Sergius and Bacchus
- Chapter 3 Where Textual Bodies Meet: Anglo-Saxon Womenâs Epistolary Friendships
- Chapter 4 Sapienter amare poterimus: On Rhetoric and Friendship in the Letters of Heloise and Abelard
- Chapter 5 Peter the Venerable and Secular Friendship
- Chapter 6 Mysterious Friends in the Prayers and Letters of Anselm of Canterbury
- Chapter 7 Monastic Friendship in Theory and in Action in the Twelfth Century
- Chapter 8 Ideological Friendship In The Middle Ages: Bonizo of Sutri and His Liber Ad Amicum
- Chapter 9 Friendship in the Heroic Epic: RuedegĂȘr in the Nibelungenlied
- Chapter 10 Spiritual Friendship in the Works of Alfonso X of Castile: Images of Interaction Between the Sacred and Spiritual Worlds of Thirteenth-Century
- Chapter 11 The Spiritual Friendship of Henry Suso and Elsbeth Stagel
- Chapter 12 Engendering Obligation: Sworn Brotherhood and Love Rivalry in Medieval English Romance
- Chapter 13 Schotland Talking Bird and Gentle Heart: Female Homosocial Bonding in Chaucerâs âSquireâs Taleâ
- Chapter 14 Sovereign Fathers and Sovereign Friends in Hamlet and Michel de Montaigneâs âOf Friendshipâ
- Chapter 15 Die zwei Freunde des Leonardo da Vinci: Eine kunsthistorische Fallstudie (with an English abstract)
- Chapter 16 Friendship and Good Counsel: The Discourses of Friendship and Parrhesia in Francis Baconâs The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall
- Chapter 17 Painted Friends: Political Interests and the Transformation of International Learned Sociability
- Chapter 18 âIf I must example beeâ: Donneâs Petrarchan Heart as Speculum Amicitiae
- Chapter 19 George Herbertâs Friendship with Christ in The Temple (1633)
- Chapter 20 Friendship and Enmity to God and Nation: The Complexities of Jewish-Gentile Relations in the Whitehall Conference o 1655
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Index: Persons, Subjects, Titles, Concepts
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