Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern France (2008)
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Schachter, M. (2008). Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern France. Ashgate Publishing

Focusing primarily on three early modern French authors, this book explores the erotics and politics of "voluntary servitude" in classical antiquity and the early modern period. These authors-Étienne de La Boétie, Michel de Montaigne, and Marie de Go... Read More about Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern France.

Presentation of a Newly Discovered Manuscript of La Boétie's Discours de la Servitude volontaire and Hypotheses on the Datation of the BnF Manuscripts (2008)
Journal Article
Schachter, M. (2008). Presentation of a Newly Discovered Manuscript of La Boétie's Discours de la Servitude volontaire and Hypotheses on the Datation of the BnF Manuscripts. Montaigne studies, 20(1-2), 185-206

Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros (2006)
Journal Article
Schachter, M. (2006). Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros. Renaissance Quarterly, 59(2), 406-439. https://doi.org/10.1353/ren.2008.0331

This essay considers commentaries on and translations of Plato’s Symposium (by Marsilio Ficino, the Henri Estienne-Jean de Serres team, and, preeminently, Louis Le Roy) as well as an influential Neoplatonic passage from Baldassar Castiglione’s Il Cor... Read More about Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros.

'That friendship which possesses the soul': Montaigne Loves La Boétie (2001)
Journal Article
Schachter, M. (2001). 'That friendship which possesses the soul': Montaigne Loves La Boétie. Journal of Homosexuality, 41(3-4: Homosexuality in French History and Culture), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1300/j082v41n03_02

'Egli s'innamoro del suo valore': Leone, Bradamante and Ruggiero in the 1532 Orlando Furioso (2000)
Journal Article
Schachter, M. (2000). 'Egli s'innamoro del suo valore': Leone, Bradamante and Ruggiero in the 1532 Orlando Furioso. Modern Language Notes, 115(1), 64-79. https://doi.org/10.1353/mln.2000.0011