02964nam 2200649Ia 450 991078508180332120230207224519.01-383-03923-21-280-75926-70-19-151441-11-4294-5692-2(CKB)1000000000410600(EBL)422597(OCoLC)476258235(SSID)ssj0000261360(PQKBManifestationID)11207420(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261360(PQKBWorkID)10256179(PQKB)11745736(Au-PeEL)EBL422597(CaPaEBR)ebr10266498(CaONFJC)MIL75926(MiAaPQ)EBC422597(EXLCZ)99100000000041060020021028d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransformations of love[electronic resource] the friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin /Frances HarrisOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20021 online resource (349 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-925257-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-324) and index.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; IndexJohn 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 andDiaristsGreat BritainBiographyWomenGreat BritainBiographyGreat BritainCourt and courtiersHistory17th centuryEnglandSocial life and customs17th centuryGreat BritainCourt and courtiersBiographyDiaristsWomen828/.403942.06092942.060922942.0660922Harris Frances895737MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785081803321Transformations of love3756613UNINA