The Visionary Queen : Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre / Theresa Brock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brock, Theresa, author.

Series:

Early modern feminisms.

Early Modern Feminisms Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Marguerite.

Labyrinths in literature.

Justice in literature.

Reformation in literature.

Reformation--France.

Reformation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.) : none

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, [2024]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Marguerite de Navarre: The Visionary Queen

Part I. Labyrinthine Motifs in Marguerite’s Era, Endeavors, and Spiritual Outlook

Part II. The Heptaméron as Textual Labyrinth

Conclusion. The Empirical Reader at Labyrinth’s End: Responding to Marguerite’s Vision

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2023)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64453-309-X

1-64453-310-3

OCLC:

1403968842