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Text, Knowledge, and Wonder in Early Modern France: Essays in Honour of Stephen Bamforth - Nottingham French Studies Volume 56, Issue 3 (Paperback)
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Text, Knowledge, and Wonder in Early Modern France: Essays in Honour of Stephen Bamforth - Nottingham French Studies Volume 56, Issue 3 (Paperback)
Series: Traditions in American Cinema
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Loot Price R581
Discovery Miles 5 810
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Explores the entwinement of early modern text, knowledge and
wonder, and their connections in France A triple nexus of text,
knowledge, and wonder permeated much literary, learned, and
ceremonial culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France.
There were endless variations on the combination, often with two of
the three elements predominating. This volume tracks some of those
variations as they appeared in collections of natural wonders,
pedagogical situations, a family, an alchemical romance, a carnival
festivity, a learned society, and poetry. Key Features Content
written in English and French. The contributors to this volume are
leading specialists in early modern French studies, from France and
the UK. Considers the development of natural wonders, monsters and
mythical animals, alchemical symbols and concepts of friendship and
rivalry.
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