{"product_id":"on-amist-elizabeth-coggeshall-9781487548179","title":"On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers across late medieval Christian society friendship raised a number of social and ethical dilemmas that needed to be carefully negotiated. \u003ci\u003eOn Amistà\u003c\/i\u003e analyses these dilemmas and looks at how Dante's strategic articulations of friendship evolved across the phases of his literary career as he manoeuvred between different social groups and settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Coggeshall reveals that friendship was not an unequivocal moral good for the writers of late medieval Italy. Instead, it was an ambiguous term to be deployed strategically, describing a wide range of social relationships such as allies, collaborators, servants, patrons, rivals, and enemies. Drawing on the use of the language of friendship in the letters, correspondence poems, dedications, narratives, and treatises composed by Dante and his interlocutors, Coggeshall examines the way they skillfully negotiated around the dilemmas that friendship raised in the spheres of medieval Italian literary society. The book addresses instances of inclusivity and exclusivity, collaboration and self-interest, hierarchy and equality, and alterity and identity. Employing literary, historical, and sociological analysis, \u003ci\u003eOn Amistà\u003c\/i\u003e presents a genealogy for the innovative and tactical use of the terms of friendship among the works of late medieval Italian authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Coggeshall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487548176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487548179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 5.91w x 0.94d","brand":"Elizabeth Coggeshall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44079216460031,"sku":"9781487548179","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_90480cc0-cce8-4a6b-b3ce-95d48e206927.jpg?v=1685479850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-amist-elizabeth-coggeshall-9781487548179","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}