Author: John D. Lyons
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512804177
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Appearing in print for the first time in 1558, the book that we now know as the Heptameron is the work of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Left incomplete, but dearly modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, the Heptameron consists of a frame narrative and seventy-two tales told by five men and five women characters in the shady meadow at Notre Dame de Sarrance. As John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley contend in their introduction to this volume, the tales of the Heptameron portray the conflicts, ruptures, and upheavals that agitated early modern French society. They present a forum in which different elements of Renaissance and Reformation culture meet and, at times, collide. Contradictory suppositions about men and women are easily discerned behind almost all of the stories, and the discussions among the fictional storytellers represent attitudes both feminist and misogynist, masculinist, and misandrous. Less oppositional are the religious conflicts among the storytellers; some are less ardently religious while others are concerned with the corporeal rather than the spiritual. The stories of the Heptameron are often cautionary tales about the corruption of the late medieval church, about decadent priests and monks, or about the unfortunate faithful whose belief in the efficacy of good works for salvation leads to disaster and death. The conflicts of the Reformation loom over the Heptameron not just as the origin of its ideological tensions but also as a prominent symptom of the larger, related disruptions that marked sixteenth-century Europe. Provocative and wide-ranging, appealing to specialists in numerous fields, Critical Tales is the first collective volume of studies in English on the Heptameron. The authors—Robert D. Cottrell, Hope Glidden, Marcel Tetel, Donald Stone, Tom Conley, Michel Jeanneret, Cathleen M. Bauschatz, François Cornilliat and Ullrich Langer, Mary B. McKinley, Philippe de Lajarte, Andre Tournon, Daniel Russell, François Rigolot, Paula Sommers, and Edwin M. Duval—present different approaches to Marguerite de Navarre's tales, dealing with such topics as confession, rape, the impact of printing on knowledge and narrative, narrative theory, and androgyny. The contributors to Critical Tales, like the storytellers of the Heptameron, are not afraid to challenge the critical establishment and one another. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of French and comparative literature and women's studies.
Critical Tales
Author: John D. Lyons
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512804177
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Appearing in print for the first time in 1558, the book that we now know as the Heptameron is the work of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Left incomplete, but dearly modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, the Heptameron consists of a frame narrative and seventy-two tales told by five men and five women characters in the shady meadow at Notre Dame de Sarrance. As John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley contend in their introduction to this volume, the tales of the Heptameron portray the conflicts, ruptures, and upheavals that agitated early modern French society. They present a forum in which different elements of Renaissance and Reformation culture meet and, at times, collide. Contradictory suppositions about men and women are easily discerned behind almost all of the stories, and the discussions among the fictional storytellers represent attitudes both feminist and misogynist, masculinist, and misandrous. Less oppositional are the religious conflicts among the storytellers; some are less ardently religious while others are concerned with the corporeal rather than the spiritual. The stories of the Heptameron are often cautionary tales about the corruption of the late medieval church, about decadent priests and monks, or about the unfortunate faithful whose belief in the efficacy of good works for salvation leads to disaster and death. The conflicts of the Reformation loom over the Heptameron not just as the origin of its ideological tensions but also as a prominent symptom of the larger, related disruptions that marked sixteenth-century Europe. Provocative and wide-ranging, appealing to specialists in numerous fields, Critical Tales is the first collective volume of studies in English on the Heptameron. The authors—Robert D. Cottrell, Hope Glidden, Marcel Tetel, Donald Stone, Tom Conley, Michel Jeanneret, Cathleen M. Bauschatz, François Cornilliat and Ullrich Langer, Mary B. McKinley, Philippe de Lajarte, Andre Tournon, Daniel Russell, François Rigolot, Paula Sommers, and Edwin M. Duval—present different approaches to Marguerite de Navarre's tales, dealing with such topics as confession, rape, the impact of printing on knowledge and narrative, narrative theory, and androgyny. The contributors to Critical Tales, like the storytellers of the Heptameron, are not afraid to challenge the critical establishment and one another. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of French and comparative literature and women's studies.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512804177
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Appearing in print for the first time in 1558, the book that we now know as the Heptameron is the work of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. Left incomplete, but dearly modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, the Heptameron consists of a frame narrative and seventy-two tales told by five men and five women characters in the shady meadow at Notre Dame de Sarrance. As John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley contend in their introduction to this volume, the tales of the Heptameron portray the conflicts, ruptures, and upheavals that agitated early modern French society. They present a forum in which different elements of Renaissance and Reformation culture meet and, at times, collide. Contradictory suppositions about men and women are easily discerned behind almost all of the stories, and the discussions among the fictional storytellers represent attitudes both feminist and misogynist, masculinist, and misandrous. Less oppositional are the religious conflicts among the storytellers; some are less ardently religious while others are concerned with the corporeal rather than the spiritual. The stories of the Heptameron are often cautionary tales about the corruption of the late medieval church, about decadent priests and monks, or about the unfortunate faithful whose belief in the efficacy of good works for salvation leads to disaster and death. The conflicts of the Reformation loom over the Heptameron not just as the origin of its ideological tensions but also as a prominent symptom of the larger, related disruptions that marked sixteenth-century Europe. Provocative and wide-ranging, appealing to specialists in numerous fields, Critical Tales is the first collective volume of studies in English on the Heptameron. The authors—Robert D. Cottrell, Hope Glidden, Marcel Tetel, Donald Stone, Tom Conley, Michel Jeanneret, Cathleen M. Bauschatz, François Cornilliat and Ullrich Langer, Mary B. McKinley, Philippe de Lajarte, Andre Tournon, Daniel Russell, François Rigolot, Paula Sommers, and Edwin M. Duval—present different approaches to Marguerite de Navarre's tales, dealing with such topics as confession, rape, the impact of printing on knowledge and narrative, narrative theory, and androgyny. The contributors to Critical Tales, like the storytellers of the Heptameron, are not afraid to challenge the critical establishment and one another. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of French and comparative literature and women's studies.
The Tales Of The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre (Complete)
Author: Consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465522980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1035
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465522980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1035
Book Description
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Author: Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romance fiction, French
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The stories of the Heptameron are related by five men and five women for their amusement and edification after they have taken refuge in a Pyrenean Abbey from a series of disasters. Their subjects range from the bawdy to the romantic, from anti-clerical humor to serious reflections on spiritual matters.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Romance fiction, French
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The stories of the Heptameron are related by five men and five women for their amusement and edification after they have taken refuge in a Pyrenean Abbey from a series of disasters. Their subjects range from the bawdy to the romantic, from anti-clerical humor to serious reflections on spiritual matters.
Tales of the Heptameron
Author: Queen Of Nava Margaret Queen of Navarre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781603127769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Marguerite de Navarre was queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre and an author and patron of the arts. "The Heptameron" is a collection of stories inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron." Many of the stories deal with matters of romance and sex. Margaret believed a man could not attain a perfect love of God without first having loved a creature of the world. It was intended to be a collection of one hundred stories set over a ten day time period, but was never completed. A total of seventy-two stories in seven volumes exist. This is the fourth volume of the five.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781603127769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Marguerite de Navarre was queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre and an author and patron of the arts. "The Heptameron" is a collection of stories inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron." Many of the stories deal with matters of romance and sex. Margaret believed a man could not attain a perfect love of God without first having loved a creature of the world. It was intended to be a collection of one hundred stories set over a ten day time period, but was never completed. A total of seventy-two stories in seven volumes exist. This is the fourth volume of the five.
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Author: Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Author: Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
Author: Kathleen Wellman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.
The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Author: Margarete (Navarra, Königin)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Glasse of the synnefull soule
Author: Margarete (Navarra, Königin)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devotional literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devotional literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 356
Book Description
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
Author: E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734093228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734093228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer