The Art of the Network : Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence /

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A sociological study of networking that explores the relationship between networks and agency and that analyzes a rich historical antecedent of contemporary networking and the concept of self that accompanies it.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McLean, Paul Douglas, 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social networks.
Renaissance.
Patronage, Political.
Patron and client.
Manners and customs.
Letter writing, Italian.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
Renaissance > Italie > Florence.
Correspondance italienne > Histoire.
Patron et client > Italie > Florence > Histoire.
Favoritisme > Italie > Florence > Histoire.
Reseaux sociaux > Italie > Florence > Histoire.
Renaissance > Italy > Florence.
Letter writing, Italian > History.
Patron and client > Italy > Florence > History.
Patronage, Political > Italy > Florence > History.
Social networks > Italy > Florence > History.
Italy > Florence.
Florence (Italy) > Social life and customs.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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