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Selected Writings

A Bilingual Edition

Edited and Translated by Rouben Cholakian and Mary Skemp
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) was the sister and wife to kings and a pivotal influence in sixteenth-century France. An astute politician and diligent humanist, she was a champion of gender equality and the evangelical reform movement, which recognized that the clergy was more concerned with maintaining the church’s power than ministering to the faithful. As the years passed and the glitter of life at court waned, however, Marguerite came to realize her true vocation: writing.
            Selected Writings brings together a representative sampling of Marguerite’s varied writings, most of it never before translated into English, enabling Anglophone readers to enjoy the full breadth of her work for the first time. From verse letters and fables to mythological-pastoral tales, from spiritual songs to a selection of novellas from the Heptameron, the wide range of works included here will reveal Marguerite de Navarre to be one of the most important writers—male or female—of sixteenth-century France.
 
 

432 pages | 7 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2008

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe

Literature and Literary Criticism: Romance Languages

Poetry

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Series Editors’ Introduction

Volume Editor’s Introduction

Volume Editor’s Bibliography

 

I Epîtres / Verse Letters

II Le miroir de l’âme pécheresse / The Mirror of the Sinful Soul

III La coche / The Coach

IV La fable du faux cuyder / The Fable of False Pride

V Chansons spirituelles / Spiritual Songs

VI La comédie de Mont-de-Marsan / The Comedy of Mont-de-Marsan

VII Selections from the Heptameron  

 

Notes  

Series Editors’ Bibliography

Index

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