Men and women making friends in early modern France / edited by Lewis C. Seifert, Brown University, USA and Rebecca M. Wilkin, Pacific Lutheran University, USA.
"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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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Lewis C. Seifert and Rebecca M. Wilkin
- Was 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.