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

• Autore: Harris Frances
• 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
• 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: 1-383-03923-2; 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.: 9910785081803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II