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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.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 2-5
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction: The Governance of Friendship
  2. pp. 1-16
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  1. Chapter I. The Order of Outsiders
  2. pp. 17-58
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  1. Chapter II: Lessons in Legal Theory
  2. pp. 59-106
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  1. Chapter III: Strategies of Coercion: Filostrato
  2. pp. 107-152
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  1. Chapter IV: Dioneo and the Politics of Marriage
  2. pp. 153-190
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  1. Chapter V: The Rule of Panfilo: Fables of Reconciliation
  2. pp. 191-232
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  1. Works Cited
  2. pp. 233-242
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  1. Index
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