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The art of the network : strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence
- Title
- The art of the network : strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence / Paul D. McLean.
- Author
- McLean, Paul, 1962-
- Publication
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 288 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Politics, history, and culture
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-277) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-2770
- ISBN
- 9780822341000 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 082234100X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822341178 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822341174 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007017993
- OCLC
- 137331338
- Author
- McLean, Paul, 1962-
- Title
- The art of the network : strategic interaction and patronage in Renaissance Florence / Paul D. McLean.
- Imprint
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, c2007.
- Series
- Politics, history, and culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-277) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-2770