Accompanied by a Great Number of Their Friends : Warrior Nobles and Amitié during the French Wars of Religion

Brian Sandberg, "'Accompanied by a Great Number of Their Friends': Warrior Nobles and Amitié during the French Wars of Religion", dans Amyrose McCue Gill, Sarah Rolfe Prodan (éd.), Friendship and Sociability in Premodern Europe: Contexts, Concepts, and Expressions, Toronto, CRRS, 2014.

Présentation de l'ouvrage

Friendship and Sociability in Premodern Europe explores ideas and instances of friendship in premodern Europe through a series of investigations into amity in discrete social and cultural contexts related to some of the most salient moments and expressions of European history and civilization: the courtly love tradition, Renaissance humanism; the spread of syphilis; the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation (and the attendant confessionalization and wars of religion); Jesuit missions; the colonization of America; and, lastly, expanding trade patterns in the Age of Discovery. The essays progress thematically as well as logically with the goal of providing a panoramic view of friendship and sociability in premodern Europe rather than a comprehensive history or unified theory of premodern friendship. Each paper presents an element of novelty – a revised or adapted concept, tradition, or strategy of social and interpersonal relating in the premodern world.