The Favor of Friends
Sean Gilsdorf
The Favor of Friends offers the first book-length exploration intercession—aid and advocacy by one individual or group in behalf another—within early medieval aristocratic societies. Drawing upon a variety disciplines historiographical traditions, Sean Gilsdorf demonstrates how this process operated, it was ideologically elaborated, Carolingian Ottonian Europe, allowing individuals groups to leverage their own, limited interpersonal networks fullest, produce new relationships, gain access previously closed spaces, generate interest agendas from those able effect change. enriches our understanding politics rulership, offering model political interaction which hierarchy comity do not stand ideological pragmatic tension, but instead work integrated mutually-reinforcing ways.