1st Edition
Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700
Biography
Daniel Lochman is a professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos. His work appears in the Journal of the History of Ideas, Renaissance and Reformation, the Sixteenth Century Journal, and Milton Studies. Maritere López is an associate professor of History at California State University, Fresno. Her work has focused on the lives and letters of sixteenth-century courtesans as they evince the appeal and limits of definitional categories available to early modern women. Lorna Hutson is Berry Professor of Literature at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She is the author or co-editor of numerous books, including The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (2007).
'... the authors give a successful overview of the numerous concepts and practices of friendship in early modern times. ... The choice of interdisciplinary essays provides the reader with a wide range of analyses of doctrinal, political and literary texts. True to the volume's title, the essays cover a wide geographical and social range. In doing so, the authors succeed in giving an all-encompassing overview of contemporary scholarship on friendship.' Seventeenth Century
