Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from December 2005

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from December 2005

The culture of early modern friendship.(Editorial)
December 22, 2005... The editors are grateful for the assistance of Doug Bruster, Alison Frazier, Wayne Rebhorn, Michael Stapleton, Madeline Sutherland-Meier, and Lisa Moore. This special issue of TSLL revises our understanding of early modern literary culture...

Francis Petrarch: first modern friend.
December 22, 2005... In the classic Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt developed a concept of an era, a concept that despite controversy would retain currency for over a century. Drawing on Goethe and the tradition of nineteenth-century...

The practice of community: humanist friendship during the Dutch revolt.(Biography)
December 22, 2005... In 1574 Abraham Ortelius, the renowned Flemish cartographer and antiquarian, began to collect signatures, inscriptions, and pictures from his international network of friends. They entered their contributions in an album, called an "album...

Friendship and voluntary servitude: Plato, Ficino, and Montaigne.
December 22, 2005... Aussi demeure il une autre servitude volontaire, non subjette a aucune infamie: Ascavoir celle que concerne la vertu. [Thus there remains another voluntary servitude, not subject to any infamy: that is, that servitude...

Cicero on stage: Damon and Pithias and the fate of classical friendship in English Renaissance drama.
December 22, 2005... Male friendship is the source of some very bad behavior on the English Renaissance stage. "All that was mine in Silvia I give thee," says Valentine to his friend Proteus in the conclusion to Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona (5.4.83)....

Nicholas Oldisworth, Richard Bacon, and the practices of Caroline friendship.
December 22, 2005... Sed quoniam res humanae fragiles caducaeque sunt, semper aliqui anquirendi sunt quos diligamus et a quibus diligamur; caritate enim benevolentiaque sublata omnis est e vita sublata iucunditas. Cicero, De Amicitia. xxvii.102...

"The Lord hath joined us together, and wo be to them that should part us": Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers as traveling friends.
December 22, 2005... Evans and Cheevers at Malta In 1658, Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, two Quaker preachers whose previous missionary travels had taken them to Scotland, Ireland, and all over England, left London for Alexandria and Istanbul. Traveling...

The value of female friendship in seventeenth-century Spain.
December 22, 2005... The topic of women's friendship in the early modern period has proved elusive for literary critics. Male-authored literature abounds with examples of female characters who ally themselves with sisters, maids, and friends; yet female friendship...