Men and women making friends in early modern France
"Today the friendships that grab people's imaginations are those that reach across inequalities of class and race. The friendships that seem to have exerted an analogous level of fascination in early modern France were those that defied the assumption, inherited from Aristotle and patristi...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Farnham [u.a.] : Ashgate,
2015
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Women and gender in the early modern world
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| Schlagworte: | Friendship Interpersonal relations Man-woman relationships Frankreich Freundschaft Geschichte 1500-1800 |
| Umfang: | X, 305 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction Lewis C. Seifert and Rebecca M. WilkinWas Montaigne a good friend? / George Hoffmann
- The power to correct: beating men in service friendships Michele Miller
- Redressing Ficino, redeeming desire: Symphorien Champier's La nef des dames Todd Reeser
- Translating friendship in the circle of Marguerite de Navarre: Plato's Lysis and Lucian's Toxaris Marc Schachter
- From reception to assassination: French negotiations of "platonic love" Katherine Crawford
- Friends of friends: intellectual and literary sociability in the age of Richelieu Robert Schneider
- Making friends, practicing equality: the correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia Rebecca M. Wilkin
- The gendered self and friendship in action among the Port-Royal nuns Daniella Kostroun
- The Marquise de Sablé and her friends: men and women between the convent and the world Lewis C. Seifert
- From my lips to yours: friendship, confidentiality, and gender in early modern France Peter Shoemaker.