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The pleasure of discernment : Marguerite de Navarre as theologian / Carol Thysell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thysell, Carol, 1950- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in historical theology.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in historical theology
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.
- Marguerite.
- Theology in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this innovative study, Carol Thysell argues that Marguerite envisioned her poetry, and especially the Heptameron, as alternative vehicles for a constructive theological programme.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1 Gender and Genre: MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE AND THE TRADITION OF ALLEGORICAL RHETORIC; 2 The Context of Liberty: MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE, CALVIN, AND THE SPIRITUAL LIBERTINES; 3 Certainty, Ambiguity, and Evil: THE THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE; 4 Of Brigands and Bridles: PROVIDENCE IN THE WORK OF CALVIN AND MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE; 5 The Pleasure of Discernment: MORAL DELIBERATION IN THE HEPTAMERON; 6 Discerning the Marguerite: ALLEGORICAL RHETORIC IN THE HEPTAMERON; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-774044-8
- 1-280-96568-1
- 9786610965687
- 0-19-535013-8
- OCLC:
- 352888325
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