Transformations of love [[electronic resource] ] : the friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin / / Frances Harris
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Harris Frances
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| Titolo: |
Transformations of love [[electronic resource] ] : the friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin / / Frances Harris
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (349 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 828/.403 |
| 942.06092 | |
| 942.060922 | |
| 942.0660922 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Diarists - Great Britain |
| Women - Great Britain | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Court and courtiers History 17th century |
| England Social life and customs 17th century | |
| Great Britain Court and courtiers Biography | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Transformations of love |
| ISBN: | 1-280-75926-7 |
| 0-19-151441-1 | |
| 1-4294-5692-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450943103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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