Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300–1800

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter, Miri Rubin

   Pages 1-14

3. Friendship’s Loss: Alan Bray’s Making of History

   • Valerie Traub

   Pages 15-42

4. Sacred or Profane? Reflections on Love and Friendship in the Middle Ages

   • Klaus Oschema

   Pages 43-65

5. Friendship in Catholic Reformation Eichstätt

   • Jonathan Durrant

   Pages 66-87

6. A Society of Sodomites: Religion and Homosexuality in Renaissance England

   • Alan Stewart

   Pages 88-109

7. ‘Swil-bols and Tos-pots’: Drink Culture and Male Bonding in England, c.1560–1640

   • Alexandra Shepard

   Pages 110-130

8. The Politics of Women’s Friendship in Early Modern England

   • Laura Gowing

   Pages 131-149

9. Friends and Neighbours in Early Modern England: Biblical Translations and Social Norms

   • Naomi Tadmor

   Pages 150-176

10. Tricksters, Lords and Servants: Begging, Friendship and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century England

    • Tim Hitchcock

    Pages 177-196

11. Spinoza and Friends: Religion, Philosophy and Friendship in the Berlin Enlightenment

    • Adam Sutcliffe

    Pages 197-220

12. Back Matter

    Pages 221-230

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This ground-breaking volume explores the terrain of friendship against the historical backdrop of early modern Europe. In these thought-provoking essays the terms of friendship are explored - from the most intimate and erotically charged to the reciprocities of village life. This is a rich offering in social and cultural history that is attuned to the pervasive language of religion. A hidden history is revealed - of friendships that we have lost, and of friendships starkly, and movingly, familiar.

• cultural history
• England
• enlightenment
• Europe
• history
• Middle Ages
• reform
• reformation
• Renaissance
• Spinoza

• Kings College, London, UK

  Laura Gowing

• Birkbeck, University of London, UK

  Michael Hunter

• Queen Mary, University of London, UK

  Miri Rubin

JONATHAN DURRANT Lecturer in Early Modern History, Cardiff University, UK TIM HITCHCOCK Professor of Eighteenth-Century History, University of Hertfordshire, UK KLAUS OSCHEMA Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Bern, Switzerland ALEXANDRA SHEPARD Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge, UK ALAN STEWART Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA ADAM SUTCLIFFE Associate Professor of European Jewish History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA NAOMI TADMOR Lecturer in History, University of Sussex, UK VALERIE TRAUB Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, USA

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