The Visionary Queen

Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre

Theresa Brock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2023
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
978-1-64453-308-6 (ISBN)

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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.

The Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarre’s status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic 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 seventy-two 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 both the fallen world and redemption, two themes that underlie Marguerite's project of reform.

THERESA BROCK is assistant professor of French Studies at Smith College. She received her PhD from Penn State and has published articles on women writers, literary genre, and religious studies in the early modern era, with particular emphasis on the sixteenth century.

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Marguerite de Navarre: The Visionary Queen

Part I: Labyrinthine Motifs in Marguerite’s Era, Endeavors, and Spiritual Outlook

1. The Labyrinth as Structure and Symbol: From Experience to Writing in the Medieval and Early Modern Contexts

2. From the Labyrinth, a Vision: Competing Influences on Marguerite’s Religious, Political, and Creative Endeavors

3. “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”: Exegesis, Pilgrimage, and Labyrinthine Connections in the Reformation

Part II: The Heptaméron as Textual Labyrinth

4. Into the Labyrinth: Mirroring Sin, Prompting Reform

5. Down Tortuous Paths: Exploring Approaches to Justice and Reform

6. 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

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Erscheinungsdatum	14.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	none
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-64453-308-1 / 1644533081
ISBN-13	978-1-64453-308-6 / 9781644533086
Zustand	Neuware