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Cedric C. Brown presents an 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 coterminous with gift exchange 3.1 Penthea, Electra, and `the Mutual Love of God3́.2 Pentheaś Objects; 3.3 The Loyal and Celebrated Mrs Mordaunt; 3.4 The Friendship with Elizabeth in the Restoration Years; 3.5 Conclusions: Religious Friendship and Practical Service; Part II: Milton, Friendship, and Reader-Friends; 4: Miltonś Younger Years, Humanist Identities, Diodati, and Italy; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Scholarly Individualist and Collegiate Sociability; 4.3 Earlier Exchanges with Charles Diodati; 4.4 Friendship Resumed and Theorized in the Letters of 1637; 4.5 Special Friendship Enacted: Epitaphium Damonis and Gifts 4.6 Italian/Humanist Ideals, Mansus, and a Glimpse of New Times5: Polemics, Blindness, Cyriac Skinner, and Meditations on Friendship; 5.1 The Construction of Friendship in the Sonnets; 5.2 Friendship Values and the Negative Example of Morus; 5.3 Friendship and the Blind Man: The Case of Cyriac Skinner; 5.4 The Discourse of Skinnerś `Life;́ 6: Mature Reflections, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes; 6.1 From Reader-Friends to General Readers; 6.2 From Visits Out to Visits In; 6.3 Visitations and Friends in Paradise Lost; 6.4 Visits and Friends in Samson Agonistes 6.5 Conclusion: The Intellectualizing IndividualistPart III: Dorothy Osborne, William Temple, Lord Arlington, and Others; 7: Dorothy Osborne, Sociability, and the Laws of Friendship; 7.1 Introduction: Two Kinds of Friendship?; 7.2 Extraordinary Letters, Courtship, and the Anxieties of Difference; 7.3 `An Agreement & Conformity of Humors;́ 7.4 Friendship, Love, and the Crisis of 1653/4; 8: Temple-Arlington and Evelyn-Arlington: Client-Patron Friendships at Court; 8.1 Temple and Arlington: A Lexicon of Client-Friendship; 8.2 Policy and Friendship Betrayed 8.3 Evelyn and Arlington: Counter-Manoeuvres and Comparisons9: Endings and Counter-Discourses; 9.1 Temple in his Garden, Dorothy in London, Lady Giffard, Lord Hatton, and Others; 9.2 To the Gardens of Epicurus and Not Eating Beans; 10: Conclusions: The Spectrum of Friendship; 10.1 Vulnerabilities and Sociability; 10.2 Exclusivities and Control; 10.3 The Texts of Katherine Philips as a Compendium of Friendship Practices; 10.4 Friendship Beyond Death; APPENDIX: Jeremy Taylor's Ten Laws of Friendship; Select Bibliography; LIST OF CHIEF MANUSCRIPT SOURCES CONSULTED; British Library Cover; Friendship and its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1: Introduction: Explorations of the Friendship Spectrum; 1.1 What and What Not; 1.2 Instrumental and Intimate: Finch, Baines, Henry More, Lady Conway, and Christś College; 1.3 Who Was Traherneś Best Friend?; Part I: John Evelyn, Jeremy Taylor, and Elizabeth Carey; 2: John Evelyn and Jeremy Taylor; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 `Tokens ́of Friendship; 2.3 Taylorś Discourse Revisited: Substance and Worth; 3: John Evelyn and Elizabeth Carey/Mordaunt
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