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

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...

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1. Verfasser: Harris, Frances
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Schriftenreihe:OUP E-Books.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-324) and index.
ISBN:9780191514418
0191514411
1280759267
9781280759260
9780199270323
0199270325

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