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The visionary queen : justice, reform, and the labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre

Title: The visionary queen : justice, reform, and the labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre / Theresa Brock.
Author: Brock, Theresa
Publication: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2024]

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Description

viii, 227 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarre's status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of non-schismatic 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 72 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 the fallen world and redemption all at once, themes that Marguerite's project of reform consistently hearken back to"--

Series Statement

Early modern feminisms

Uniform Title

Early modern feminisms.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Marguerite de Navarre -- the visionary queen -- The labyrinth as structure and symbol : from experience to writing in the medieval and early modern contexts -- From the labyrinth, a vision : competing influences on Marguerite's religious, political, and creative endeavors -- "We walk by faith, not by sight" : exegesis, pilgrimage, and labyrinthine connections in the Reformation -- Into the labyrinth : mirroring sin, prompting reform -- Down tortuous paths : exploring approaches to justice and reform -- Above the labyrinth : a higher vision for reforming the self and society -- Conclusion : the empirical reader at labyrinth's end -- responding to Marguerite's vision.

Call Number

JFE 24-422

ISBN

9781644533277
1644533278
9781644533086
1644533081
9781644533093 (canceled/invalid)
9781644533109 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023014646

OCLC

1380997814

Author

Brock, Theresa, author.

Title

The visionary queen : justice, reform, and the labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre / Theresa Brock.

Publisher

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2024]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Early modern feminisms

Early modern feminisms.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1599

Research Call Number

JFE 24-422

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