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Private and public relationships between individuals or groups - frequently labelled as friendships - have played a central role in human societies. Yet, over the centuries ideas and meanings of friendship transformed, adapting to the political and social climate of a period, and consequently resisting rigid definitions. Changing concepts and practices of friendship characterized the intellectual, social, political and cultural panorama of medieval Europe, including that of the fascinating and yet understudied thirteenth-century Iberia. The Peninsula's fascinating history, as the subject of conquests and 'Reconquest', land of convivencia, but also of rebellions, political instability, and secular and religious international power-struggles, makes the articulation of friendship within its borders a particularly fraught subject to study. Drawing on some of the encyclopaedic masterpieces produced in the scriptorium of 'The Wise' and 'The Learned' King, Alfonso X of Castile (1252-84) - namely the Marian songs of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, the law code of the Siete Partidas and the chronicle Estoria de Espana - this study explores the political, religious and social networks, inter-fa

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Author

Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo

Publisher

Ashgate Pub Co

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315583259

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Anthropology