Friendship, Uncertainty, and 'Commonplacing' in Renaissance Florence

Autor:	Gábor Mihály Tóth
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	History Friendship History and Philosophy of Science media_common.quotation_subject The Renaissance Art Electrical and Electronic Engineering Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Classics media_common
Zdroj:	The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 52:27-54
ISSN:	1530-9169 0022-1953
DOI:	10.1162/jinh_a_01662
Popis:	In fifteenth-century Florence, friendship—or the client–patron relationship, as contemporaries termed it—was often associated with uncertainties and risks. An investigation of diaries, notebooks, and letter correspondences of the time, from the perspective of game theory and decision theory, reveals how Florentines reasoned about the uncertainties of friendship, deploying an array of knowledge-constructing practices, under the rubric of “commonplacing,” to understand it. The preventive techniques that Florentines applied to cope with the conflicting testimonies of the contemporary information culture (the increase in the variety and the availability of vernacular texts, the expansion of literacy, etc.) only served to intensify their predicament. The fact that clients and patrons largely viewed their relationship in the same way challenges the traditional notion of that relationship as asymmetrical.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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