Homer and the politics of authority in Renaissance France
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Homer and the politics of authority in Renaissance France
（Classical presences）
Oxford University Press, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book disputes the notion that humanists, classical scholars in sixteenth-century France, were ivory-tower academics detached from the world around them. Through their interpretations of Homer, they not only played the role of counselor to the king, but participated actively in national debates in their poetry, their art, their pamphlets, their plays. Because Homer was considered an authority on all subjects, including politics, he became a locus for authority
issues surrounding the king. This study shows how Homer was initially used to construct the image of a monarchy which traced its origins back to Troy, but later, after the outbreak of the Wars of Religion, the Greek poet is cited in discussions critical of the monarchy. It examines not only the
different hermeneutic practices of Catholics and Protestants but also their contributions to debates about sovereignty and ultimately to the development of a French national consciousness. Homer's demise at the end of the century parallels the rise of political absolutism.
目次
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Part I: Making Homer French, 1530-1560
- Chapter 1: Guillaume Bude: Instituting a Homeric French King
- Chapter 2: Jean Dorat: Toward an Official French Homeric Idiom
- Chapter 3: Royal Mythography and Its Discontents: Joachim Du Bellay and Etienne de la Boetie
- Part II: Homer and the Problem of Authority During the Wars of Religion (1560-1592)
- Chapter 4: Homer and the War of Words
- Chapter 5: Reading Homer Across the Religious Divide: Guillaume Paquelin & Jean de Sponde
- Chapter 6: Trojan / French Chaos: Garnier's La Troade, Homer, and Raison d'Etat
- Chapter 7: Montaigne, La Boetie, Homer: from Parliament to Parley
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
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