Marilyn Yalom
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 382 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of female friendship, looking at how women were once considered to be incapable of the highest forms of friendship, and how they were able to co-opt this relationship ideal for themselves over the years. --Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom distills the central tenets of the Gallic gospel of love from her reading of the great French literary works, as well as from the people she has known and her own memories of France, examining almost a thousand years of divine culture in search of the intimate moments that reveal how the particularly French concept of l'amour has endured and evolved.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A researcher traces the history of the two-lobed symbol used to represent love through its use for thousands of years through Christian theology, pagan love poetry, medieval paintings, Shakespearean dramas and into the present.