Abstract
This article focuses on one aspect of the presentation of friendship within the writings of the Dominican Heinrich Seuse: the importance accorded to visible signs and images as tokens or manifestations of friendship. Seuse's Horologium sapientiae contains his most developed statement on the nature of friendship, as well as a complex definition of signs as markers that mediate between inner and outer, the secret and the manifest. The materiality of gifts and other tokens parallels an awareness of the legibility of the body itself: the notion of 'the body as an image' serving as the corollary of 'the image as a body'. To that extent, all gifted images represent an incarnation of sorts, reflecting not only the fact that for Seuse, friendship itself constitutes a gift, but also that friendship is made manifest on the model of the Incarnation.
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