{"product_id":"the-governance-of-friendship-michael-sherberg-9780814256862","title":"The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the Decameron","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the \u003c\/i\u003eDECAMERON by Michael Sherberg addresses two related and heretofore unexamined problems in the pages of the\u003ci\u003e Decameron\u003c\/i\u003e: its theory of friendship and the legal theory embedded in it. Sherberg shows how Aristotle's \u003ci\u003eEthics \u003c\/i\u003eas well as Thomas Aquinas's \u003ci\u003eSumma Theologica\u003c\/i\u003e inform these two discourses, at the intersection of which Boccaccio locates the question of gender relations which is one of the book's central concerns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through a series of close readings at all three levels of the text--the author's statements, the frame narrative, and the stories themselves--Sherberg shows how Boccaccio exposes and explores gender tensions rooted in a notion of the patriarchal household, which finds its own rationale in the natural-law postulate of the inferiority of women. Relying on the writings of the great twentieth-century legal theorist Hans Kelsen, Sherberg demonstrates how through the complex architecture of the \u003ci\u003eDecameron \u003c\/i\u003eBoccaccio dismantles the logic of natural law, exposing it instead as a rhetoric used by men to justify their control of women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Governance of Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e aims well to advance our understanding of Boccaccio as an intellectual: not only steeped in the key texts of his time, but also at the forefront of critical thinking about such issues as law and gender which will play out over the coming centuries and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Sherberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814256864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814256862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Michael Sherberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44053023817983,"sku":"9780814256862","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_701cde28-d26f-433f-ae79-564c3ea786b3.jpg?v=1685021968","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-governance-of-friendship-michael-sherberg-9780814256862","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}