Selected writings : a bilingual edition / Marguerite de Navarre ; edited and translated by Rouben Cholakian and Mary Skemp ; with an introduction by Rouben Cholakian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.

Contributor:

Cholakian, Rouben Charles, 1932-

Skemp, Mary.

Series:

Other voice in early modern Europe.

The other voice in early modern Europe

Standardized Title:

Selections. English & French. 2008

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549--Translations into English.

Marguerite.

French literature--16th century.

French literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was the sister and wife to kings and a pivotal influence in sixteenth-century France. An astute politician and diligent humanist, she was a champion of gender equality and the evangelical reform movement, which recognized that the clergy was more concerned with maintaining the church's power than ministering to the faithful. As the years passed and the glitter of life at court waned, however, Marguerite came to realize her true vocation: writing. Selected Writings brings together a representative sampling of Marguerite's varied writings, most of it never before translated into English, enabling Anglophone readers to enjoy the full breadth of her work for the first time. From verse letters and fables to mythological-pastoral tales, from spiritual songs to a selection of novellas from the Heptameron, the wide range of works included here will reveal Marguerite de Navarre to be one of the most important writers-male or female-of sixteenth-century France.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: Introduction to the Series

Volume Editor's Introduction

Volume Editor's Bibliography

I. Epîtres / Verse Letters

II. Le miroir de l'âme pécheresse / The Mirror of the Sinful Soul

III. La coche / The Coach

IV. La fable du faux cuyder / The Fable of False Pride

V. Chansons spirituelles / Spiritual Songs

VI. La Comédie de Mont- de- Marsan / The Comedy of Mont- de- Marsan

VII. Selections from The Heptameron

Notes

Series Editors' Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-432) and index.

ISBN:

9786612239830

9781282239838

128223983X

9780226142739

0226142736

OCLC:

435650528