Men and women making friends in early modern France /
[Book]
edited by Lewis C. Seifert and Rebecca M. Wilkin.
x, 305 pages ;
24 cm.
Women and gender in the early modern world.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-292) and index.
Introduction / Lewis C. Seifert and Rebecca M. Wilkin -- Was Montaigne a good friend? / George Hoffmann -- The power to correct: beating men in service friendships / Michele Miller -- Redressing Ficino, redeeming desire: Symphorien Champier's La nef des dames / Todd Reeser -- Translating friendship in the circle of Marguerite de Navarre: Plato's Lysis and Lucian's Toxaris / Marc Schachter -- From reception to assassination: French negotiations of "platonic love" / Katherine Crawford -- Friends of friends: intellectual and literary sociability in the age of Richelieu / Robert Schneider -- Making friends, practicing equality: the correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia / Rebecca M. Wilkin -- The gendered self and friendship in action among the Port-Royal nuns / Daniella Kostroun -- The Marquise de Sablé and her friends: men and women between the convent and the world / Lewis C. Seifert -- From my lips to yours: friendship, confidentiality, and gender in early modern France / Peter Shoemaker.