ISBN:
9781472454096
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 305 S.
,
Ill.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Minelli, Kelly Rezension von Lewis C. Seifert: Rebecca M. Wilkin (ed.) Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France 2016
Series Statement:
Women and gender in the early modern world
DDC:
302.0944
Keywords:
Friendship History
;
Interpersonal relations History
;
Man-woman relationships History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Frankreich
;
Freundschaft
;
Geschichte 1500-1800
Abstract:
"Today the friendships that grab people's imaginations are those that reach across inequalities of class and race. The friendships that seem to have exerted an analogous level of fascination in early modern France were those that defied the assumption, inherited from Aristotle and patristic sources, that friendships between men and women were impossible. Together, the essays in Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the rising prominence of women as potential friends. The revival of Plato's friendship texts in the sixteenth century challenged Aristotle's rigid ideal of perfect friendship between men. In the seventeenth century, a new imperative of heterosociality opened a space for the cultivation of cross-gender friendships, while the spiritual friendships of the Catholic Reformation modeled relationships that transcended the gendered dynamics of galanterie. Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France argues that the imaginative experimentation in friendships between men and women was a distinctive feature of early modern French culture. The ten essays in this volume address friend-making as a process that is creative of self and responsive to changing social and political circumstances. Contributors reveal how men and women fashioned gendered selves, and also circumvented gender norms through concrete friendship practices. By showing that the benefits and the risks of friendship are magnified when gender roles and relations are unsettled, the essays in this volume highlight the relevance of early modern friend-making to friendship in the contemporary world" --
Note:
Literaturverz. S. [267] - 292
,
Introduction
,
The power to correct: beating men in service friendships
,
Redressing Ficino, redeeming desire: Symphorien Champier's La nef des dames
,
Translating friendship in the circle of Marguerite de Navarre: Plato's Lysis and Lucian's Toxaris
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From reception to assassination: French negotiations of "platonic love"
,
Friends of friends: intellectual and literary sociability in the age of Richelieu
,
Making friends, practicing equality: the correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia
,
The gendered self and friendship in action among the Port-Royal nuns
,
The Marquise de Sablé and her friends: men and women between the convent and the world
,
From my lips to yours: friendship, confidentiality, and gender in early modern France
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