The art of the network : strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence / Paul D. McLean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLean, Paul Douglas, 1962-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Politics, history, and culture.

Politics, history, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social networks--Italy--Florence--History.

Social networks.

Patronage, Political--Italy--Florence--History.

Patronage, Political.

Patron and client--Italy--Florence--History.

Patron and client.

Letter writing, Italian--History.

Letter writing, Italian.

Renaissance--Italy--Florence.

Renaissance.

Florence (Italy)--Social life and customs.

Florence (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A sociological study of networking that explores the relationship between networks and agency and that analyzes a rich historical antecedent of contemporary networking and the concept of self that accompanies it.

Contents:

The principles of networking as a social process

The rhetoric and design of Florentine letter writing

The socially contested concept of honor

What gets said when in patronage letters

The dynamics of office seeking

Friends of friends : raccomandazione as rhetoric and as constitutive principle

Patronage and the stalled transformation of the state

"Servants and slaves in everything and for everything" : Renaissance networking and the emergent modern self?

Conclusion: Culture and the network.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-277) and index.

ISBN:

9786612923555

9780822341000

082234100X

9781282923553

1282923552

OCLC:

271168128