LEADER 02964nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910785081803321 005 20230207224519.0 010 $a1-383-03923-2 010 $a1-280-75926-7 010 $a0-19-151441-1 010 $a1-4294-5692-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000410600 035 $a(EBL)422597 035 $a(OCoLC)476258235 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000261360 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207420 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261360 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10256179 035 $a(PQKB)11745736 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL422597 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266498 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL75926 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC422597 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000410600 100 $a20021028d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTransformations of love$b[electronic resource] $ethe friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin /$fFrances Harris 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (349 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-925257-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [310]-324) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aJohn 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 606 $aDiarists$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aWomen$zGreat Britain$vBiography 607 $aGreat Britain$xCourt and courtiers$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aEngland$xSocial life and customs$y17th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xCourt and courtiers$vBiography 615 0$aDiarists 615 0$aWomen 676 $a828/.403 676 $a942.06092 676 $a942.060922 676 $a942.0660922 700 $aHarris$b Frances$0895737 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785081803321 996 $aTransformations of love$93756613 997 $aUNINA