Amicitia

Articles: Juha Sihvola, Friendship and Sociability in Aristotle; Mary Harlow & Ray Lawrence, De Amicitia. The Role of Age; Ann-Cathrin Harders, 'Let us join our hearts!' The Role and Meaning of Constructing Kinship and Friendship in Republican Rome; Emily A. Hemelrijk, Women's Participation in Civic Life. Patronage and "Motherhood" of Roman Associations; Alison B. Griffith, Amicitia in the Cult of Mithras. The Setting and Social Functions of the Mithraic Cult Meal; Antigone Samellas, Friendship and Ascetism in the Late Antique East; Ville Vuolanto, Early Christian Communities as Family Networks. Fertile Virgins and Celibate Fathers; Christian Laes, Kinship and Friendship in the Apophthegmata Patrum; M. Shane Bjornlie, Amicitia in the Epistolary Tradition. The Case of Cassiodorus' Variae; Eva-Maria Butz, Eternal amicitia? Social and Political Relationships in the Early Medieval libri memoriales; Silke Winst, The Infinity of Love. Conceptions of Joint Death in Medieval Literature (Amicus and Amelius vs. Tristan and Isold); Jill Bradley, Fraternal Rivalry and Moral Patronage; Miikka Tamminen, A Test of Friendship. Amicitia in the Crusade Ideology of the Thirteenth Century; Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Gender, Networks and Collaboration: Pilgrimages in Fourteenth-Century Canonization Processes; José Antonio Jara Fuente, Compulsory Bonding: Systemic Friends and Clients. Objectifying Inter-Personal Relationships in Fifteenth-Century Urban Castile.