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Politics and ‘Politiques' in Sixteenth-Century France
Explores conceptions of politics in early modern France, and the controversies the word 'politique' attracted during the Wars of Religion.
The Journals of Margaret Schmidt
Transcriptions of the diaries of a woman who lived in Glencoe, Hillsboro, Portland, and West Union, Oregon. Includes entries on daily chores, local travel, friends and local personalities.
Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing
Jennifer H. Oliver explores the extent to which depictions of the ship in sixteenth century France are freighted with political, religious, and poetic symbolism. She examines the ways in which the ship and the body are made analogous in Renaissance shipwreck writing.
Pierre de L'Estoile and His World in the Wars of Religion
The Wars of Religion embroiled France in decades of faction, violence, and peacemaking in the late sixteenth century. When historians interpret these events they inevitably depend on sources of information gathered by contemporaries, none more valuable than the diaries and collection of Pierre de L'Estoile (1546-1611), who lived through the civil wars in Paris and shaped how they have been remembered ever since. Taking him out of the footnotes, and demonstrating his significance in the culture of the late Renaissance, this is the first life of L'Estoile in any language. It examines how he negotiated and commemorated the conflicts that divided France as he assembled an extraordinary collectio...
Early Modern Improvisations
With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, and politics. The book engages readers interested in texts that range from Shakespeare and Tudor queens to Anglican missionary work in North America; from contemporary feminist television series to Ancient Greek linguistic and philosophical concepts; from the delicate dance of diplomatic exchange to the instabilities of illness, food insecurity, and piracy. Its range of contributions encourages readers to discover their own intersections acro...
Seventeenth-century Fiction
A multi-authored study of the emergence and transmission of fictional writing in Europe in the seventeenth century, with the aim of improving understanding of the origins of the novel.
Women Writing Antiquity
Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader struggle over the definition of literature and literary knowledge during a time of significant cultural change. As the female intellectual became a figure of debate, France was also undergoing a shift away from the dominance of classical cultural models, the transition towards a standardized modern language, the development of a national literature and literary canon, and the emergence of the literary field. This book explores the intersection of these phenomena, analyzing how a range of women constructed the female intellectual through their recepti...
The Unbridled Tongue
The Unbridled Tongue is a book about talking too much and why it was considered not just inadvisable but dangerous in sixteenth-century Europe. Drawing on a wide range of sources and approaches, it is the first book to address Renaissance literary portrayals of gossip and rumor in a social, religious, political, and historical frame.
A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion
Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Renée Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the military captain Mathurin Delacanche, who had committed multiple acts of rape, homicide, and theft against the villagers who lived around her château near the cathedral city of Sens. But how could Chevalier win her case when King Henri IV's Edict of Nantes ordered that the recent troubles should be forgotten as 'things that had never been'? A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion is a dramatic account of the impact of the troubles on daily life. Based on neglected archival sources and an exceptional criminal trial, it recovers the experiences of women, peasants, and fo...
Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion
Fresh analysis of the political thought of the French Holy League, active during the religious wars, within its intellectual context.
