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Course Adoption. Contact Form. Manufacturer information: Koninklijke Brill B. Social Media Overview. General Resources. Terms and Conditions. Privacy Statement. Browse Our Titles. Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account. Author: Sean J. The Favor of Friends offers the first book-length exploration of intercessionβaid and advocacy by one individual or group in behalf of anotherβwithin early medieval aristocratic societies. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines and historiographical traditions, Sean Gilsdorf demonstrates how this process operated, and how it was ideologically elaborated, in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe, allowing individuals and groups to leverage their own, limited interpersonal networks to the fullest, produce new relationships, gain access to previously closed spaces, and generate interest in their agendas from those able to effect change.
The Favor of Friends enriches our understanding of early medieval politics and rulership, offering a model of political interaction in which hierarchy and comity do not stand in ideological and pragmatic tension, but instead work in integrated and mutually-reinforcing ways.
Copyright Year: E-Book PDF. Login via Institution. Prices from excl. View PDF Flyer. Contents About. By: Sean Gilsdorf. Pages: 43β Pages: 85β Pages: β Biographical Note Sean Gilsdorf Ph. Holyoke College. There is much to praise about this book. It is the most comprehensive and subtle treatment of political intercession in the ninth and tenth centuries and should be read with care by all students and scholars of the Carolingian empire and its immediate successors.
