The Sixteenth Century French Religious Book

Author : Andrew Pettegree,Paul Nelles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351881890

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The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book by Andrew Pettegree,Paul Nelles Pdf

This study comprises the proceedings of a conference held in St Andrews in 1999 which gathered some of the most distinguished historians of the French book. It presents the 16th-century book in a new context and provides the first comprehensive view of this absorbing field. Four major themes are reflected here: the relationship between the manuscript tradition and the printed book; an exploration of the variety of genres that emerged in the 16th century and how they were used; a look at publishing and book-selling strategies and networks, and the ways in which the authorities tried to control these; and a discussion of the way in which confessional literature diverged and converged. The range of specialist knowledge embedded in this study will ensure its appeal to specialists in French history, scholars of the book and of 16th-century French literature, and historians of religion.

Author : S. Broomhall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230501508

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Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France by S. Broomhall Pdf

This work considers how Frenchwomen participated in Christian religious practice during the sixteenth century, with their words and their actions. Using extensive original and archival sources, it provides a comprehensive study of how women contributed to institutional, theological, devotional and political religious matters. Challenging the view of religious reforms and ideas imposed by male authorities upon women, this study argues instead that women, Catholic and Calvinist, lay and monastic, were deeply involved in the culture, meanings and development of contemporary religious practices.

Author : Diane C. Margolf
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271090917

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Religion and Royal Justice in Early Modern France by Diane C. Margolf Pdf

Diane Margolf looks at the Paris Chambre de l’Edit in this well-researched study about the special royal law court that adjudicated disputes between French Huguenots and the Catholics. Using archival records of the court’s criminal cases, Margolf analyzes the connections to three major issues in early modern French and European history: religious conflict and coexistence, the growing claims of the French crown to define and maintain order, and competing concepts of community and identity in the French state and society. Based on previously unexplored archival materials, Margolf examines the court through a cultural lens and offers portraits of ordinary men and women who were litigants before the court, and the magistrates who heard their cases.

Author : Antonia Szabari
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804773546

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Less Rightly Said by Antonia Szabari Pdf

Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"—yet this period, torn apart by religious differences, also saw the rise of a much cruder, personal satire that aimed at converting readers to its ideological, religious, and, increasingly, political ideas. By focusing on popular pamphlets along with more canonical works, Less Rightly Said shows that the satirists did not simply renounce the moral ideal of elite, humanist scholarship but rather transmitted and manipulated that scholarship according to their ideological needs. Szabari identifies the emergence of a political genre that provides us with a more thorough understanding of the culture of printing and reading, of the political function of invectives, and of the general role of dissensus in early modern French society.

Author : Lucien Febvre
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 0674708261

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The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century by Lucien Febvre Pdf

Lucien Febvre's magisterial study of sixteenth century religious and intellectual history, published in 1942, is at long last available in English, in a translation that does it full justice. The book is a modern classic. Febvre, founder with Marc Bloch of the journal Annales, was one of France's leading historians, a scholar whose field of expertise was the sixteenth century. This book, written late in his career, is regarded as his masterpiece. Despite the subtitle, it is not primarily a study of Rabelais; it is a study of the mental life, the mentalit , of a whole age. Febvre worked on the book for ten years. His purpose at first was polemical: he set out to demolish the notion that Rabelais was a covert atheist, a freethinker ahead of his time. To expose the anachronism of that view, he proceeded to a close examination of the ideas, information, beliefs, and values of Rabelais and his contemporaries. He combed archives and local records, compendia of popular lore, the work of writers from Luther and Erasmus to Ronsard, the verses of obscure neo-Latin poets. Everything was grist for his mill: books about comets, medical texts, philological treatises, even music and architecture. The result is a work of extraordinary richness of texture, enlivened by a wealth of concrete details--a compelling intellectual portrait of the period by a historian of rare insight, great intelligence, and vast learning. Febvre wrote with Gallic flair. His style is informal, often witty, at times combative, and colorful almost to a fault. His idiosyncrasies of syntax and vocabulary have defeated many who have tried to read, let alone translate, the French text. Beatrice Gottlieb has succeeded in rendering his prose accurately and readably, conveying a sense of Febvre's strong, often argumentative personality as well as his brilliantly intuitive feeling for Renaissance France.

Author : Franklin Charles Palm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : France
ISBN : UCAL:B3437658

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Politics and Religion in Sixteenth-century France by Franklin Charles Palm Pdf

Author : David P. LaGuardia,Cathy Yandell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317097693

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Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France by David P. LaGuardia,Cathy Yandell Pdf

Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France engages the question of remembering from a number of different perspectives. It examines the formation of communities within diverse cultural, religious, and geographical contexts, especially in relation to the material conditions for producing texts and discourses that were the foundations for collective practices of memory. The Wars of Religion in France gave rise to numerous narrative and graphic representations of bodies remembered as icons and signifiers of the religious ’troubles.’ The multiple sites of these clashes were filled with sound, language, and diverse kinds of signs mediated by print, writing, and discourses that recalled past battles and opposed different factions. The volume demonstrates that memory and community interacted constantly in sixteenth-century France, producing conceptual frames that defined the conflicting groups to which individuals belonged, and from which they derived their identities. The ongoing conflicts of the Wars hence made it necessary for people both to remember certain events and to forget others. As such, memory was one of the key ideas in a period defined by its continuous reformulations of the present as a forum in which contradictory accounts of the recent past competed with one another for hegemony. One of the aims of Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France is to remedy the lack of scholarship on this important memorial function, which was one of the intellectual foundations of the late French Renaissance and its fractured communities.

Author : Frederic J. Baumgartner
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0312158564

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France in the Sixteenth Century by Frederic J. Baumgartner Pdf

Both the golden age of the Renaissance state and the catastrophic era of the Wars of Religion, this fascinating period in French history has been oddly neglected by English-language historians. Professor Baumgartner's book fills a major gap in the textbook market: an accessible, fully current account which covers the principal political, economic and cultural themes from Francois I's successful centralization of the state, through France's near prostration under the Catholic-Huguenot civil war, and ending with the accession of Henri IV.

Author : Vincent Robert-Nicoud
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004381827

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The World Upside Down in 16th-Century French Literature and Visual Culture by Vincent Robert-Nicoud Pdf

In The World Upside Down Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an account of the topos of the world upside-down in sixteenth-century French literature and visual culture with reference to the social, political, and religious turmoil of the period.

Author : Neil Kenny
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472521354

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An Introduction to 16th-century French Literature and Thought by Neil Kenny Pdf

The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's Essays, Rabelais' comic fictions, Ronsard's poetry, Calvin's theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and contributed to cultural upheavals: the movement usually known as the Renaissance, which sought to revive ancient Greek and Roman culture for present-day purposes; religious reform, including the previously unthinkable rejection of Catholicism by many in the Reformation, culminating in decades of civil war in France; the French language's transformation into an instrument for advanced abstract thought. This book introduces this vibrant literature and thought via an apparent paradox. Most writers were profoundly concerned to improve life in the here-and-now - socially, politically, morally, spiritually. Yet they often tried to do so by making detours, in their writing, to other times and places: antiquity; heaven and hell; the hidden recesses of Nature, the cosmos, or the future; the remote location of an absent loved one; the newly 'discovered' Americas.The point was to show readers that the only way to live in the here-and-now was to connect it to larger realities - cosmic, spiritual, and historical.

Author : Janine Garrisson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : France
ISBN : 0312126123

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A History of Sixteenth-century France, 1483-1598 by Janine Garrisson Pdf

Author : Janine Garrisson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349240203

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A History of Sixteenth Century France, 1483-1598 by Janine Garrisson Pdf

A masterful new survey of sixteenth-century France which examines the vicissitudes of the French monarchy during the Italian Wars and the Wars of Religion. It explores how the advances made under a succession of strong kings from Charles VIII to Henri II created tensions in traditional society which combined with economic problems and emerging religious divisions to bring the kingdom close to disintegration under a series of weak kings from Francois II to Henri III. The political crisis culminated in France's first succession conflict for centuries, but was resolved through Henri IV's timely reconnection of dynastic legitimism with religious orthodoxy.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ceremonial exchange
ISBN : 0199242887

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The Gift in Sixteenth-century France by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations--or do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price on every exchange? These questions are central to our sense of social relations past and present, and they are at the heart of this book by one of our most intersting and renowned historians.

Author : Andrew Pettegree
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004161870

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The French Book and the European Book World by Andrew Pettegree Pdf

A series of linked studies of European print culture of the sixteenth century, focusing particularly on France and the regional, provincial experience of print.

Author : Katy Gibbons
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780861933136

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English Catholic Exiles in Late Sixteenth-century Paris by Katy Gibbons Pdf

This title uses a range of evidence to investigate the polemical and practical impact of religious exile. Moving beyond contemporary stereotypes, it reconstructs the experience and the priorities of the English Catholics in Paris and the hostile and sympathetic responses that they elicited in both England and France.