A companion to Marguerite de Navarre
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A companion to Marguerite de Navarre
(Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, v. 42)
Brill, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-386) and index
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Most widely read today as the author of the "Heptameron," 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 Lefevre d'Etaples, Guillaume Briconnet, and Gerard Roussel. In this volume, eleven eminent scholars offer new appreciations of Marguerite's extraordinary life and rich and diverse literary oeuvre, 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.
Table of Contents
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'ame pecheresse
and the Miroir de Jesus-Christ crucifie
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 Heptameron: Word, Spirit, World
Gary Ferguson and Mary B. McKinley
Bibliography
Index
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