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The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the Decameron
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.