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


Paul McLean.
Bok Engelsk 2007 Paul Douglas McLean
Utgitt
Durham, N.C. : Chesham : : Duke University Press ; : Combined Academic [distributor], , c2007.
Omfang
xv, 288 p. ; : : ill. ;
Opplysninger
Formerly CIP.. - 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.
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ISBN
082234100X (hbk.) : : £48.00. - 0822341174 (pbk.) : : £12.99. - 9780822341000 (hbk.) : : £48.00

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