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Platonic Love in Renaissance Discussions of Friendship (2022)
Book Chapter
Schachter, M. (2022). Platonic Love in Renaissance Discussions of Friendship. In C. S. O'Brien, & J. Dillon (Eds.), Platonic love from antiquity to the Renaissance (275-288). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525596.022

Elite friendship discourse in the Renaissance was shaped by a set of commonplaces inherited from classical antiquity according to which friends were virtuous, male, and few in number, and their relationships egalitarian and non-sexual. Neoplatonic lo... Read More about Platonic Love in Renaissance Discussions of Friendship.

Introduction (2019)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J., & Schachter, M. D. (2019). Introduction. In J. O'Brien, & M. D. Schachter (Eds.), La première circulation de la Servitude volontaire en France et au-delà (9-59). Honoré Champion

Alcuni anelli mancanti del discorso lesbico: i primi commenti a stampa sopra Giovenale (2017)
Book Chapter
Schachter, M. (2017). Alcuni anelli mancanti del discorso lesbico: i primi commenti a stampa sopra Giovenale. In U. Grassi, V. Lagioia, & G. P. Romagnani (Eds.), Tribadi, sodomiti, invertite e invertiti, pederasti, femminelle, ermafroditi... per una storia dell’omosessualità, della bisessualità e delle trasgressioni di genere in Italia (29-40). Edizioni ETS

Foucault and La Boétie (2016)
Journal Article
Schachter, M. D. (2016). Foucault and La Boétie. Storia del pensiero politico, 5(2), 241-259. https://doi.org/10.4479/84206

Explicit references to Étienne de La Boétie are almost entirely absent from Michel Foucault's works. This paper considers the potential reasons for the absence of the "Discours de la servitude volontaire from Foucault's meditations" on governmentalit... Read More about Foucault and La Boétie.

On Lesbian Acts and Female Pleasures in Juvenal Commentaries from Antiquity to 1500 (2015)
Journal Article
Schachter, M. D. (2015). On Lesbian Acts and Female Pleasures in Juvenal Commentaries from Antiquity to 1500. Renaissance and Reformation, 38(4), 19-40. https://doi.org/10.33137/rr.v38i4.26372

This article explores the representation of sex between women in an understudied archive: commentaries on Juvenal’s Satires from antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. By tracking the changes in glosses to a passage in the Sixth Satire that r... Read More about On Lesbian Acts and Female Pleasures in Juvenal Commentaries from Antiquity to 1500.

Some Notes on the Print History of Illustrated Italian Editions of Apuleius' Golden Ass (2013)
Book Chapter
Schachter, M. (2013). Some Notes on the Print History of Illustrated Italian Editions of Apuleius' Golden Ass. In M. Israëls, & L. A. Waldman (Eds.), Renaissance studies in honor of Joseph Connors. Volume 2 (463-468). Harvard University Press

The 177 essays in these two richly illustrated volumes represent the cutting edge of Italian Renaissance scholarship in nearly every one of its fields and were gathered to honor Joseph Connors, Director of Villa I Tatti from 2002 to 2010. Demonstrati... Read More about Some Notes on the Print History of Illustrated Italian Editions of Apuleius' Golden Ass.

The Friendship of the Wicked in Novella 12 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron (2010)
Book Chapter
Schachter, M. (2010). The Friendship of the Wicked in Novella 12 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron. In D. T. Lochman, M. López, & L. Hutson (Eds.), Discourses and representations of friendship in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 (165-180). Ashgate Publishing

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed famil... Read More about The Friendship of the Wicked in Novella 12 of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron.

'Quanto concede la Guerra': Epic Masculinity and the Education of Desire in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata (2010)
Book Chapter
Schachter, M. (2010). 'Quanto concede la Guerra': Epic Masculinity and the Education of Desire in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata. In G. Milligan, & J. Tylus (Eds.), The poetics of masculinity in early modern Italy and Spain (215-241). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

The idea that masculinity has a history is fairly recent. This collection opens new paths in literary and theatre studies by addressing not only how literary texts represented masculinity but how different representational strategies in such texts pr... Read More about 'Quanto concede la Guerra': Epic Masculinity and the Education of Desire in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata.

'Qu'est-ce que la critique': La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault (2009)
Book Chapter
Schachter, M. (2009). 'Qu'est-ce que la critique': La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault. In Z. Zalloua (Ed.), Montaigne after theory / Theory after Montaigne (122-141). University of Washington Press

Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors in world literature. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among readers today. Montaigne After Theory... Read More about 'Qu'est-ce que la critique': La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault.

Libido Sciendi: Apuleius, Boccaccio, and the Study of the History of Sexuality (2009)
Journal Article
Schachter, M., & Eisner, M. (2009). Libido Sciendi: Apuleius, Boccaccio, and the Study of the History of Sexuality. PMLA, 124(3), 817-837. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.3.817

This essay contributes to recent debates in the study of the history of sexuality that have developed out of a comparison of a story from Apuleius’s Golden Ass and its transformation by Boccaccio in the Decameron. Addressing questions of book history... Read More about Libido Sciendi: Apuleius, Boccaccio, and the Study of the History of Sexuality.