A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-22189-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Renaissance literature, the history of early modern France, the history of the Church and the Reformation, and women as both writers and political figures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferguson, Gary

McKinley, Mary B

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Gary Ferguson and Mary B. McKinley

Marguerite de Navarre and Evangelical Reform
Jonathan A. Reid

Marguerite de Navarre: the Reasons for Remaining Catholic
Jean-Marie Le Gall

Neo-Platonic Themes of Ascent in Marguerite de Navarre
Philip Ford

Opening and Closing Reflections: the Miroir de l’âme pécheresse
and the Miroir de Jésus-Christ crucifié
Isabelle Garnier with Isabelle Pantin

Speaking with the Dead: Spirituality, Mourning, and Memory in
the Dialogue en forme de vision nocturne and La Navire
Reinier Leushuis

Les Prisons’ Poetics of Conversion
Cynthia Skenazi

Chansons Spirituelles--Songs for a “Delightful” Transformation
Jan Miernowski

Staging the Spiritual: The Biblical and Non-Biblical Plays
Olivier Millet

The Heptaméron: Word, Spirit, World
Gary Ferguson and Mary B. McKinley

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ferguson, Gary
Gary Ferguson is the Elias Ahuja Professor of French at the University of Delaware. He has published widely on 16th-century literature and culture, notably Marguerite de Navarre, devotional poetry, women's writing, and the history of religion and sexuality.

McKinley, Mary B
Mary McKinley is the Douglas Huntly Gordon Professor of French, University of Virginia. She writes on Montaigne and Marguerite de Navarre and has edited and translated Marie Dentière’s Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin.