Transformations of love : the friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin / Frances Harris.

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Harris, Frances

Material type: Text

TextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191514418
0191514411
1280759267
9781280759260
9780199270323
0199270325

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transformations of love.DDC classification:

828/.403 21

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PR3433.E5 Z66 2002eb

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Contents:

The garden and the river -- Man of the shade -- Nuptial love -- Courtly love -- Conversion -- Seraphick love -- The serpent in the garden -- The marriage masque -- Godly housekeeping.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-324) and index.

The garden and the river -- Man of the shade -- Nuptial love -- Courtly love -- Conversion -- Seraphick love -- The serpent in the garden -- The marriage masque -- Godly housekeeping.

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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.

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