{"product_id":"friendship-in-medieval-iberia-antonella-liuzzo-scorpo-9781472412027","title":"Friendship in Medieval Iberia: Historical, Legal, and Literary Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrivate and public relationships - frequently labelled as friendships - have always played a crucial role in human societies. Yet, over the centuries ideas and meanings of friendship transformed, adapting to the political and social climates of different periods. Changing concepts and practices of friendship characterized the intellectual, social, political and cultural panorama of medieval Europe, including that of thiteenth-century Iberia. Subject of conquests and 'Reconquest', land of \u003ci\u003econvivencia\u003c\/i\u003e, but also of political instability, as well as of secular and religious international power-struggles: the articulation of friendship within its borders is a particularly fraught subject to study. Drawing on some of the encyclopaedic vernacular masterpieces produced in the scriptorium of 'The Wise' King, Alfonso X of Castile (1252-84), this study explores the political, religious and social networks, inter-faith and gender relationships, legal definitions, as well as bonds of tutorship and companionship, which were frequently defined through the vocabulary and rhetoric of friendship. This study demonstares how the values and meanings of \u003ci\u003eamicitia\u003c\/i\u003e, often associated with classical, Roman, Visigothic and Eastern traditions, were transformed to adapt to Alfonso X's cultural projects and political propaganda. This book contributes to the study of the history of emotions and cultural histories of the Middle Ages, while also emphasizing how Iberia was a peripheral, but still vital, ring in a chiain which linked it to the rest of Europe, while also occupying a central role in the historical and cultural developments of the Western Mediterranean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1472412028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472412027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065617232127,"sku":"9781472412027","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d893948f-9d04-416b-8df2-e06af155454e.jpg?v=1768676163","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/friendship-in-medieval-iberia-antonella-liuzzo-scorpo-9781472412027","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}