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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450943103321

Autore

Harris Frances

Titolo

Transformations of love [[electronic resource] ] : the friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin / / Frances Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-280-75926-7

0-19-151441-1

1-4294-5692-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

828/.403

942.06092

942.060922

942.0660922

Soggetti

Diarists - Great Britain

Women - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Great Britain Court and courtiers History 17th century

England Social life and customs 17th century

Great Britain Court and courtiers Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-324) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; Prologue; 1 The Garden and the River; 2 Man of the Shade; 3 Nuptial Love; 4 Courtly Love; 5 Conversion; 6 Seraphick Love; 7 The Serpent in the Garden; 8 The Marriage Masque; 9 Godly Housekeeping; Epilogue; Appendix A: Note on Sources; Appendix B: W. G. Hiscock, John Evelyn, and Margaret Godolphin; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

John Evelyn ranks with his friend Samuel Pepys as one of the best loved of English diarists. He was a virtuoso: a man of letters and of science, highly intellectual and devoutly spiritual. This is an absorbing new study of the most controversial episode of his life: his passionate 'seraphic' friendship with Margaret Godolphin, a maid of honour at the Restoration court of Charles II. Was Evelyn in his way as much a sexual



predator as the rakes he professed to despise, or does the. episode provide an unexpected slant on contemporary spirituality? Set against the vivid background of the court and