Overview

This ground-breaking volume explores the terrain of friendship against the historical backdrop of early modern Europe. In these thought-provoking essays the terms of friendship are explored - from the most intimate and erotically charged to the reciprocities of village life. This is a rich offering in social and cultural history that is attuned to the pervasive language of religion. A hidden history is revealed - of friendships that we have lost, and of friendships starkly, and movingly, familiar.

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Author:   L. Gowing ,  M. Hunter ,  M. Rubin
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2005 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781403991478

ISBN 10:   1403991472
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   27 September 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; L.Gowing , M.Hunter & M.Rubin Friendship's Loss: Alan Bray's Making of History; V.Traub Sacred or Profane? Reflections on Love and Friendship in the Middle Ages; K.Oschema Love and Friendship in Catholic Reformation Eitchstatt; J.Durrant A Society of Sodomites: Religion and Homosexuality in Renaissance England; A.Stewart 'Swil-bills and Tos-pots': Drink Culture and Male Bonding in Early Modern England; A.Shepard The Politics of Women's Friendship in Early Modern England; L.Gowing Friends and Neighbours in Early Modern England: Biblical Translations and Social Norms; N.Tadmor Tricksters, Lords and Servants: Begging, Friendship and Masculinity in England During the Long Eighteenth Century; T.Hitchcock Spinoza and Friends: Religion, Philosophy and Friendship in the Berlin Enlightenment; A.Sutcliffe Index

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LAURA GOWING is Reader in Early Modern History at King's College, London. She has worked on sex, gender, the body, and crime in early modern England; her books include Domestic Dangers: Women, Words and Sex in Early Modern London (OUP, 1996) and Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England (Yale, 2003). MICHAEL HUNTER is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. He has been one of the convenors of the seminar on 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' at the Institute of Historical Research since founding it with the late Bob Scribner in 1979. He has written or edited many books on the history of ideas and their context in late seventeenth-century Britain, and is the principal editor of the Works (14 vols., 1999-2000), and Correspondence(6 vols., 2001) of Robert Boyle. MIRI RUBIN is Professor of History at Queen Mary - University of London. She is interested in the religious cultures of pre-modern Europe and especially in gender and Jewish-Christian relations. Her works include Corpus Christi: the Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (1991), Gentile Tales: the Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews(1999) and The Hollow Crown; a History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages (2005). She is currently writing a cultural history of the Virgin Mary.

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