Patricia Francis Cholakian, Rouben Cholakian

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)

Mother of the Renaissance

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Produktbeschreibung

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. This title offers her biography in English.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 814g
• ISBN-13: 9780231134125
• ISBN-10: 0231134126
• Artikelnr.: 21113186

Autorenporträt

Patricia F. Cholakian was professor emerita at Hamilton College. She was the author of Rape and Writing in the Hemptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre and Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France. Rouben C. Cholakian is professor emeritus at Hamilton College and the author of The Bayeux Tapestry and the Ethos of War and The Troubadour Lyric: A Psychocritical Reading.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Chronology
Map
Genealogy
1. Mother of the Renaissance
2. Education of a Lady (1492–1515)
3. Queen in All but Name (1515–1520)
4. The Bishop of Meaux (1521–1524)
5. Envoy Extraordinary (1524–1526)
6. Queen of Navarre (1526–1533)
7. Politics and Religion (1534–1539)
8. Courtly Love—and Marriage (1539–1543)
9. And Then There Was One (1543–1547)
10. Pearls from the Pearl of Princesses (1547–1549)
Notes
References
Index