| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The northern world ; volume 85 |
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Northern world ; volume 85.
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| Contents |
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Ideas of Friendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Classical Philosophy -- Friendship and Social Formation in the High Middle Ages -- Friendship in an Oath-Taking Society -- A Ritual Perspective -- Friendship and Lordship in Twelfth-Century Scandinavia -- Epilogue -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- General Index |
| Summary |
In this book, Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking affected social identity and political behaviour. With examples taken from eleventh- and twelfth-century northern Europe, the author investigates why friendship was praised both by brotherhoods of aristocratic warriors and by brethren within monastery walls. Social and political functions rested on personal connections rather than a strong central state in the High Middle Ages. This meant that friendship was an important pragmatic instrument for establishing social order and achieving success in the game of politics |
| Notes |
Originally published in Sweden in 2009 as Bärande band : vänskap, kärlek och brödraskap i det medeltida Nordeuropa, ca 1000-1200 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Scandinavia.
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Europe, Northern -- Social conditions -- History
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| Subject |
Northern Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Crozier, Alan, 1953- translator.
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| ISBN |
9789004401211 |
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9004401210 |
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