英国复辟时期的孤独与灵魂

IF 1.8 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Barbara Taylor
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1672年,复辟王朝的朝臣、日记作家和博学家约翰·伊夫林与凯瑟琳王后家中的年轻侍女玛格丽特·布莱格(后来的戈多芬)形成了柏拉图式的灵魂结合。两人都是虔诚的英国国教教徒,他们的宗教实践受到他们对“休息”的热爱的影响。在长达四年的时间里,他们通过私下祈祷和书信虔诚的交流,在情感上建立了一种精神上的孤独,直到玛格丽特结婚并死于难产。“孤独”这个词一直以来都是极具争议的。17世纪60年代,伊夫林与苏格兰律师乔治·麦肯齐就此进行了辩论。伊芙琳站在了反对独处的一边,这在当时是一种嘲弄争论的精神。然而,尽管这场辩论很有趣,但它突显了伊夫林一生中对孤独的热爱所带来的紧张关系,在他与玛格丽特的灵魂结合中达到了情感高峰。对玛格丽特来说,和伊夫林在一起的生活也充满了烦恼,她与长期与孤独有关的忧郁痛苦作斗争,她与伊夫林的隐居虔诚生活与她与朝臣西德尼·戈多芬的订婚之间的冲突加剧了这种痛苦。追踪这种复杂的精神伙伴关系的故事,可以深入了解孤独传统的心理风险,以及它对英国复辟时期男女的不同影响。
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Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain
In 1672 John Evelyn, Restoration courtier, diarist and polymath, formed a platonic soul union with Margaret Blagge (later Godolphin), a young maid of honour in Queen Catherine’s household. Both were devout Anglicans whose religious practices were shaped by their love of ‘recesse’. For four years they enacted a spiritual solitude à deux in an emotionally charged relationship lived out through private prayer and epistolary devotional exchanges, until Margaret’s marriage and death in childbirth. Solitude was then, as it had long been, highly contentious. In the 1660s Evelyn had debated it with a Scottish lawyer named George Mackenzie. In a spirit of mock argument common at the time, Evelyn had taken the anti-solitude side. Yet despite the playfulness of the debate, it highlighted tensions in Evelyn’s love of solitude that played out across his life, reaching an emotional peak in his soul union with Margaret. For Margaret, too, life with Evelyn was fraught as she struggled with melancholic miseries long associated with solitude, compounded by a conflict between her reclusive devotional life with him and her engagement to the courtier Sidney Godolphin. Tracking the story of this complex spiritual partnership provides intimate insights into the psychological stakes of the solitude tradition and its varying implications for women and men in Restoration Britain.
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Past & Present
Past & Present Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Founded in 1952, Past & Present is widely acknowledged to be the liveliest and most stimulating historical journal in the English-speaking world. The journal offers: •A wide variety of scholarly and original articles on historical, social and cultural change in all parts of the world. •Four issues a year, each containing five or six major articles plus occasional debates and review essays. •Challenging work by young historians as well as seminal articles by internationally regarded scholars. •A range of articles that appeal to specialists and non-specialists, and communicate the results of the most recent historical research in a readable and lively form. •A forum for debate, encouraging productive controversy.
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