The art of the network: strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence

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 pr...

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1. Verfasser: McLean, Paul Douglas 1962- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham [N.C.] Duke University Press c2007
Schriftenreihe:Politics, history, and culture
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-277) and index
Beschreibung:xv, 288 p ill 25 cm
ISBN:9780822390367
0822390361

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