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The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the Decameron

Autor Michael Sherberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 oct 2020
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 which is one of the book’s central concerns.

Through a series of close readings at all three levels of the text—the author’s statements, the frame narrative, and the stories themselves—Sherberg shows how Boccaccio exposes and explores gender tensions rooted in a notion of the patriarchal household, which finds its own rationale in the natural-law postulate of the inferiority of women. Relying on the writings of the great twentieth-century legal theorist Hans Kelsen, Sherberg demonstrates how through the complex architecture of the Decameron Boccaccio dismantles the logic of natural law, exposing it instead as a rhetoric used by men to justify their control of women.

The Governance of Friendship aims well to advance our understanding of Boccaccio as an intellectual: not only steeped in the key texts of his time, but also at the forefront of critical thinking about such issues as law and gender which will play out over the coming centuries and beyond.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814256862
ISBN-10: 0814256864
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press

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This important, original study of Boccaccio’s greatest work is the mature product of a sensitively reflective scholar who has lived long and fruitfully with this text and its author. Sherberg brings together three topics—friendship, law, gender—that provide a surprisingly flexible and apposite framework for what turns out to be one of the most complete and compelling interpretations of the Decameron in recent memory.” —Albert Russell Ascoli, Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

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Michael Sherberg is associate professor of Italian, Washington University in St. Louis.