Politische Freundschaft bei Hofe

This book describes friendship as a social bond in the aristocratic society of the French seventeenth century, the "Grand Siècle", with a particular emphasis on the milieu of the court and the role of friendship in its political dynamics. Based on letters and memoirs of the period, it examines the different dimensions of the phenomenon. Besides the semantics of the words "ami" and "amitié", the re...