
The art of the network : strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence
Paul Douglas McLean
Bok · Engelsk · 2007
Utgitt | Durham, N.C. : Chesham : : Duke University Press ; : Combined Academic [distributor], , c2007.
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Omfang | xv, 288 sider : illustrasjoner
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Opplysninger | 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. - 0822341174 (pbk.). - 9780822341000. - 9780822341178
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