The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the Decameron

by Michael Sherberg

The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the DECAMERON by Michael Sherberg addresses two related and heretofore unexamined problems in the pages of the Decameron: its theory of friendship and the legal theory embedded in it. Sherberg shows how Aristotle's Ethics as well as Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica inform these two discourses, at the intersection of which Boccaccio locates the question of gender relations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256864
• ISBN13: 9780814256862
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"