A Companion To Marguerite De Navarre

Author : Gary Ferguson,Mary B. McKinley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004250505

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A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre by Gary Ferguson,Mary B. McKinley Pdf

Most widely read today as the author of the "Heptaméron," Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was known in her lifetime as a deeply religious, mystical poet. Sister of the King of France and wife of the King of Navarre, her deeds and writings expressed and sought to promote a living faith in Christ, based on the gospels, and a vision for the renewal and reform of the Church in line with the teachings of French Evangelicals such as Lefèvre d’Étaples, Guillaume Briçonnet, and Gérard Roussel. In this volume, eleven eminent scholars offer new appreciations of Marguerite’s extraordinary life and rich and diverse literary œuvre, including, in addition to her short-story collection, dialogues, mirror poems, plays, songs, and an allegorical prison narrative. Contributors include, along with the editors, Philip Ford, Isabelle Garnier, Jean-Marie Le Gall, Reinier Leushuis, Jan Miernowski, Olivier Millet, Isabelle Pantin, Jonathan A. Reid, and Cynthia Skenazi.

Author : Emily Butterworth
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846260

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Marguerite de Navarre by Emily Butterworth Pdf

A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflected the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period. Marguerite de Navarre was a Renaissance princess, diplomat, and mystical poet. She is arguably best known for The Heptameron, an answer to Boccaccio's Decameron, a brilliant and open-ended collection of short stories told by a group of men and women stranded in a monastery. The stories explore love, desire, male and female honour, individual salvation, and the iniquity of Franciscan monks, while the discussions between the storytellers enact and embody the tensions, ideologies, and prejudices underlying the stories. Marguerite herself was deeply involved in the debates and conflicts of her time. Her work reflects the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period, as the Renaissance re-imagined the past and the Reformation re-made the church, and represents her original and sometimes provocative position on these questions. This book presents The Heptameron and its investigations into gender relations, the nature of love, and the nature of religious faith in the context of the intellectual, religious, and political questions of the sixteenth century, setting it alongside Marguerite's other writings: her poetry, plays, and diplomatic letters. In chapters on communities, religion, politics, gender relationships, desire, and literary technique, it explores the complexities and resolutions of Marguerite's writing and her world. It aims to offer a guide to the critical tradition on Marguerite's work along with new readings of her texts, revealing both the historical specificity of her writing and its continuing relevance.

Author : Patricia Francis Cholakian,Rouben C. Cholakian
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231508681

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Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) by Patricia Francis Cholakian,Rouben C. Cholakian Pdf

Sister to the king of France, queen of Navarre, gifted writer, religious reformer, and patron of the arts—in her many roles, Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was one of the most important figures of the French Renaissance. In this, the first major biography in English, Patricia F. Cholakian and Rouben C. Cholakian draw on her writings to provide a vivid portrait of Marguerite's public and private life. Freeing her from the shadow of her brother François I, they recognize her immense influence on French politics and culture, and they challenge conventional views of her family relationships. The authors highlight Marguerite's considerable role in advancing the cause of religious reform in France-her support of vernacular translations of sacred works, her denunciation of ecclesiastical corruption, her founding of orphanages and hospitals, and her defense and protection of persecuted reformists. Had this plucky and spirited woman not been sister to the king, she would most likely have ended up at the stake. Though she remained a devout catholic, her theological poem Miroir de l'âme pécheresse, a mystical summa of evangelical doctrine that was viciously attacked by conservatives, remains to this day an important part of the Protestant corpus. Marguerite, along with her brother the king, was a key architect and animator of the refined entertainments that became the hallmark of the French court. Always eager to encourage new ideas, she supported many of the illustrious writers and thinkers of her time. Moreover, uniquely for a queen, she was herself a prolific poet, dramatist, and prose writer and published a two-volume anthology of her works. In reassessing Marguerite's enormous oeuvre, the authors reveal the range and quality of her work beyond her famous collection of tales, posthumously called the Heptaméron. The Cholakians' groundbreaking reading of the rich body of her work, which uncovers autobiographical elements previously unrecognized by most scholars, and their study of her surviving correspondence portray a life that fully justifies Marguerite's sobriquet, "Mother of the Renaissance."

Author : Rouben Cholakian
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781524549121

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Marguerite De Navarre by Rouben Cholakian Pdf

This is a shortened reworking of the 2006 biography Marguerite de Navarre, made more accessible here without the scholarly trappings.

Author : Raymond A. Mentzer,Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004310377

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A Companion to the Huguenots by Raymond A. Mentzer,Bertrand Van Ruymbeke Pdf

This volume offers an encompassing portrait of the Huguenots, among the best known of early modern religious minorities. It investigates the principal lines of historical development and suggests the interpretative frameworks that scholars have advanced for understanding the Huguenot experience.

Author : Robert Stauffer,Wendy R. Terry
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004338562

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A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls by Robert Stauffer,Wendy R. Terry Pdf

There existed no English-language scholarly introduction to Marguerite Porete or The Mirror of Simple Souls until now. Current interest in both and the implications her book has on medieval scholarship make a collection such as this companion ideal.

Author : Elizabeth Chesney Zegura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315394329

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Marguerite de Navarre's Shifting Gaze by Elizabeth Chesney Zegura Pdf

Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, composed in the 1540s and first published posthumously in 1558 and 1559, has long been an interpretive puzzle. De Navarre (1492-1549), sister of King Francis I of France, was a controversial figure in her lifetime. Her evangelical activities and proximity to the Crown placed her at the epicenter of her country’s internecine strife and societal unrest. Yet her short stories appear to offer few traces of the sociopolitical turbulence that surrounded her.In Marguerite de Navarre’s Shifting Gaze, however, Elizabeth Zegura argues that the Heptaméron’s innocuous appearance camouflages its serious insights into patriarchy and gender, social class, and early modern French politics, which emerge from an analysis of the text’s shifting perspectives. Zegura’s approach, which focuses on visual cues and alternative standpoints and viewing positions within the text, hinges upon foregrounding "les choses basses" (lowly things) to which the devisante (storyteller) Oisille draws our attention in nouvelle (novella) 2 of the Heptaméron, using this downward, archaeological gaze to excavate layers of the text that merit more extensive critical attention.While her conclusions cast a new light on the literature, life, and times of Marguerite de Navarre, they are nevertheless closely aligned with recent scholarship on this important historical and literary figure.

Author : Nora Martin Peterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644530351

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Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France by Nora Martin Peterson Pdf

Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France was inspired by the observation that small slips of the flesh (involuntary confessions of the flesh) are omnipresent in early modern texts of many kinds. These slips (which bear similarities to what we would today call the Freudian slip) disrupt and destabilize readings of body, self, and text—three categories whose mutual boundaries this book seeks to soften—but also, in their very messiness, participate in defining them. Involuntary Confessions capitalizes on the uncertainty of such volatile moments, arguing that it is instability itself that provides the tools to navigate and understand the complexity of the early modern world. Rather than locate the body within any one discourse (Foucauldian, psychoanalytic), this book argues that slips of the flesh create a liminal space not exactly outside of discourse, but not necessarily subject to it, either. Involuntary confessions of the flesh reveal the perpetual and urgent challenge of early modern thinkers to textually confront and define the often tenuous relationship between the body and the self. By eluding and frustrating attempts to contain it, the early modern body reveals that truth is as much about surfaces as it is about interior depth, and that the self is fruitfully perpetuated by the conflict that proceeds from seemingly irreconcilable narratives. Interdisciplinary in its scope, Involuntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France pairs major French literary works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (by Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne, Madame de Lafayette) with cultural documents (confession manuals, legal documents about the application of torture, and courtly handbooks). It is the first study of its kind to bring these discourses into thematic (rather than linear or chronological) dialog. In so doing, it emphasizes the shared struggle of many different early modern conversations to come to terms with the body’s volatility. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Jacob Vance
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004281257

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Secrets by Jacob Vance Pdf

In Secrets: Humanism, Mysticism, and Evangelism in Erasmus of Rotterdam, Bishop Guillaume Briçonnet, and Marguerite de Navarre, Jacob Vance argues that Erasmus and French Evangelical humanists made secrecy central to their literary thought. They revived Scriptural, medieval, and early Renaissance notions of secrecy in their spiritual and profane literature to advance the reforms in church and society that they advocated. Erasmus, Briçonnet, and Marguerite expanded on Origenian, Augustinian, and pseudo-Dionysian concepts of divine mystery, as being secret, throughout their works. By developing the idea that the divine remains both transcendent and immanent in the world of creation, these humanists explored, through literature, how the human spirit can either accede, or fail to accede, to the secrets of Christian wisdom.

Author : Kirsi I. Stjerna
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781506468716

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Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe by Kirsi I. Stjerna Pdf

This volume provides an expansive view of women negotiating their faith, voice, and agency in the religious scene of the sixteenth-century Reformations. Biographical chapters are accompanied by in her voice text samples, images, theme articles, and recommended readings. Features the work of thirty-four international experts in the field.

Author : H. P. Clive
Publisher : London : Grant & Cutler
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Women and literature
ISBN : 8449963443

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Marguerite de Navarre by H. P. Clive Pdf

Author : Jeff Persels,Kendall Tarte,George Hoffmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004351516

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Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature by Jeff Persels,Kendall Tarte,George Hoffmann Pdf

Twenty original perspectives on such authors as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as on less familiar works of religious polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, bibliophilism, and ichthyology.

Author : Theresa Brock
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644533093

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The Visionary Queen by Theresa Brock Pdf

The Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarre’s status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as a visionary. In her life and writings, the queen of Navarre dissected the injustices that her society and its institutions perpetuated against women. We also see evidence that she used her literary texts, especially the Heptaméron, as an exploratory space in which to generate a creative vision for institutional reform. The Heptaméron’s approach to reform emerges from statistical analysis of the text’s seventy-two tales, which reveals new insights into trends within the work, including the different categories of wrongdoing by male, institutional representatives from the Church and aristocracy, as well as the varying responses to injustice that characters in the tales employ as they pursue reform. Throughout its chapters, The Visionary Queen foregrounds the trope of the labyrinth, a potent symbol in early modern Europe that encapsulated both the fallen world and redemption, two themes that underlie Marguerite's project of reform.

Author : Reinier Leushuis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004343719

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Speaking of Love: The Love Dialogue in Italian and French Renaissance Literature by Reinier Leushuis Pdf

In Speaking of Love: The Love Dialogue in Italian and French Renaissance Literature, Reinier Leushuis examines a corpus of sixteenth-century love dialogues that exemplifies the dialogue’s mimetic qualities and validates its place in the literary landscape of the Italian and French Renaissance.

Author : Marcel Tetel
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015032038476

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Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron: Themes, Language, and Structure by Marcel Tetel Pdf