Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300–1800

JONATHAN DURRANT Lecturer in Early Modern History, Cardiff University, UKTIM HITCHCOCK Professor of Eighteenth-Century History, University of Hertfordshire, UKKLAUS OSCHEMA Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Bern, SwitzerlandALEXANDRA SHEPARD Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge, UKALAN STEWART Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USAADAM SUTCLIFFE Associate Professor of European Jewish History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USANAOMI TADMOR Lecturer in History, University of Sussex, UKVALERIE TRAUB Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, USA

• 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