Friendship and its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century

ISBN: 9780198790792 出版年：2016 页码：246 Brown, Cedric C Oxford University Press

Cedric C. Brown presents a fresh account of the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the obviously instrumental, and sees these practices as often co-terminous with gift exchange.