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This fascinating volume examines the enduring influence of courtly
tradition and courtly love, particularly in contemporary popular
culture. The ten chapters explore topics including the impact of
the medieval troubadour in modern love songs, the legacy of figures
such as Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, and Merlin in modern
film and literature, and more generally, how courtly and chivalric
conceptions of love have shaped the Western world's conception of
love, loyalty, honor, and adultery throughout history and to this
day.
Sister to the king of France, queen of Navarre, gifted writer,
religious reformer, and patron of the arts -- in her many roles,
Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was one of the most important
figures of the French Renaissance. In this, the first major
biography in English, Patricia F. Cholakian and Rouben C. Cholakian
draw on her writings to provide a vivid portrait of Marguerite's
public and private life. Freeing her from the shadow of her brother
Fran?ois I, they recognize her immense influence on French politics
and culture, and they challenge conventional views of her family
relationships.
The authors highlight Marguerite's considerable role in
advancing the cause of religious reform in France-her support of
vernacular translations of sacred works, her denunciation of
ecclesiastical corruption, her founding of orphanages and
hospitals, and her defense and protection of persecuted reformists.
Had this plucky and spirited woman not been sister to the king, she
would most likely have ended up at the stake. Though she remained a
devout catholic, her theological poem "Miroir de l'?me p?cheresse,"
a mystical summa of evangelical doctrine that was viciously
attacked by conservatives, remains to this day an important part of
the Protestant corpus.
Marguerite, along with her brother the king, was a key architect
and animator of the refined entertainments that became the hallmark
of the French court. Always eager to encourage new ideas, she
supported many of the illustrious writers and thinkers of her time.
Moreover, uniquely for a queen, she was herself a prolific poet,
dramatist, and prose writer and published a two-volume anthology of
her works. In reassessing Marguerite's enormous oeuvre, the authors
reveal the range and quality of her work beyond her famous
collection of tales, posthumously called the "Heptam?ron."
The Cholakians' groundbreaking reading of the rich body of her
work, which uncovers autobiographical elements previously
unrecognized by most scholars, and their study of her surviving
correspondence portray a life that fully justifies Marguerite's
sobriquet, "Mother of the Renaissance."
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.
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