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Friendship and community : the monastic experience, 350-1250 / with a new introduction by Brian Patrick McGuire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGuire, Brian Patrick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monastic and religious life--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Monastic and religious life.
- History.
- Friendship--History.
- Friendship.
- Physical Description:
- lxxi, 571 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- The wisdom of the Eastern Fathers
- The Western Fathers and the search for community
- The monk and the wanderer : varieties of early medieval friendship
- The eclipse of monastic friendship, c. 850-c.1120
- Reform and renewal : new impulses towards friendship, c. 1050-c. 1120
- The age of friendship : networks of friends, c. 1120-c. 1180
- Aelred of Rievaulx and the limits of friendship
- Continuity and change : the persistence of friendship, c. 1180-c. 1250.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780801476723
- 0801476720
- OCLC:
- 610019384
- Publisher Number:
- 99939178583
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