Sodalitas Litteratorum: Etudes a la memoire de / Studies in Memory of Philip Ford

Fellow of Clare College and Professor of French and Neo-Latin Literature at Cambridge University, former president of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies, and President of the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés et Instituts pour l'Étude de la Renaissance, Ford was an indefatiguable scholar whose seven monographs and scholarly editions were supplemented by twenty edited and co-edited volumes and a succession of articles and book chapters that require ten pages in the list of his publications that is found at the end of this volume. For this reason it is most fitting indeed that the theme of this essay collection in his honor is sodalitas, "a fluctuating concept of community, friendship, and collaboration [that] influenced modes of production, dissemination, and consumption of learned and/or poetic discourse" (19). The volume concludes with David Money's poem "Sodalis ad Philippum" and Ford's last paper, "Flirting with Boys: Sexual Ambiguity in Ronsard's Narrative Poetry," followed by the bibliography of Ford's writings.