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Based on sources in Genesis and Plato's Symposium , the androygyne
during Early Modern France was a means of expressing the full
potential of humans made in the image of God. This book documents
and comments on the range of references to the androgyne in the
writings of poets, philosophers, courtiers, and women in positions
of political power.
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative,
interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern
era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to
look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to
storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to
reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to
refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities
of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared
techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds
of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in
tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of
historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both
erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this
collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional
techniques and materials were manipulated to express new
realities. Published by the University of Delaware Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Â
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative,
interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern
era and the world in which we live today. Readers are invited to
look to the past to see how then, as now, people turned to
storytelling to integrate and adapt to rapid social change, to
reinforce or restructure community, to sell new ideas, and to
refashion the past. This collection explores different modalities
of storytelling in sixteenth-century France and emphasizes shared
techniques and themes rather than attempting to define narrow kinds
of narrative categories. Through studies of storytelling in
tapestries, stone, and music as well as distinct genres of
historical, professional, and literary writing (addressing both
erudite and more common readers), the contributors to this
collection evoke a society in transition, wherein traditional
techniques and materials were manipulated to express new realities.
In writing about sixteenth-century France, Lucien Febvre looked for
those changes in human consciousness that explain the process of
civilization-the most specific and tangible examples of men's
experience, the most vivid details of their daily lives. These
essays, written at the height of Febvre's powers and sensitively
edited and translated by Marian Rothstein, are the most lucid,
evocative, and accessible examples of his art.
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