Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300–1800

LAURA GOWING is Reader in Early Modern History at King's College, London. She has worked on sex, gender, the body, and crime in early modern England; her books include Domestic Dangers: Women, Words and Sex in Early Modern London (OUP, 1996) and Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England (Yale, 2003). MICHAEL HUNTER is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. He has been one of the convenors of the seminar on 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' at the Institute of Historical Research since founding it with the late Bob Scribner in 1979. He has written or edited many books on the history of ideas and their context in late seventeenth-century Britain, and is the principal editor of the Works (14 vols., 1999-2000), and Correspondence(6 vols., 2001) of Robert Boyle. MIRI RUBIN is Professor of History at Queen Mary - University of London. She is interested in the religious cultures of pre-modern Europe and especially in gender and Jewish-Christian relations. Her works include Corpus Christi: the Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (1991), Gentile Tales: the Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews(1999) and The Hollow Crown; a History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages (2005). She is currently writing a cultural history of the Virgin Mary.

• Introduction; L.Gowing , M.Hunter & M.Rubin Friendship's Loss: Alan Bray's Making of History; V.Traub Sacred or Profane? Reflections on Love and Friendship in the Middle Ages; K.Oschema Love and Friendship in Catholic Reformation Eitchstatt; J.Durrant A Society of Sodomites: Religion and Homosexuality in Renaissance England; A.Stewart 'Swil-bills and Tos-pots': Drink Culture and Male Bonding in Early Modern England; A.Shepard The Politics of Women's Friendship in Early Modern England; L.Gowing Friends and Neighbours in Early Modern England: Biblical Translations and Social Norms; N.Tadmor Tricksters, Lords and Servants: Begging, Friendship and Masculinity in England During the Long Eighteenth Century; T.Hitchcock Spinoza and Friends: Religion, Philosophy and Friendship in the Berlin Enlightenment; A.Sutcliffe Index