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Histoire de Sebastien Le Pelletier
Témoin oculaire d'un monde catholique menacé, Sébastien Le Pelletier, prêtre et humble maître de grammaire, s'est lancé en 1589 dans la rédaction d'une histoire de la ville de Chartres et de ses environs pendant les guerres de la Ligue. Il y décrit, dans le détail, les événements liés au siège de la ville par les armées de Henri IV, la résistance ligueuse et la reprise en main vigoureuse de la cité mariale par les royaux. Prêtre austère, Le Pelletier livre aussi ses impressions sur ses adversaires calvinistes et sur la politique religieuse du roi de France dans les circonstances troublées de son avènement. Xavier Le Person accompagne l'édition critique de ce riche manuscrit, original et inédit, d'une introduction, d'une annotation dense et d'un index.
Rumours of Revolt
This book explores the reception of foreign news during the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion, shedding new light on the connections between these conflicts and demonstrating the emergence of critical news audiences.
Montaigne
A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinker One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau and stoically detaching himself from his violent times? Philippe Desan overturns this long standing myth by showing that Montaigne was constantly connected to and concerned with realizing his political ambitions—and that the literary and philosophical character of the Essays largely depends on them. Desan shows how Montaigne conceived of each edition of the Essays as an indispensable prerequisite to the next stage of his public career. It was only after his political failure that Montaigne took refuge in literature, and even then it was his political experience that enabled him to find the right tone for his genre. The most comprehensive and authoritative biography of Montaigne yet written, this sweeping narrative offers a fascinating new picture of his life and work.
Thuanus
The Parisian magistrate Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was a major figure in the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) and their immediate aftermath. Best known for his magisterial History of his own times (covering 1546-1607), and his complementary Memoirs (covering 1553-1601), de Thou was a key political negotiator, a famous book-collector and an influential patron to scholars and writers, as well as a respected poet in his own right and a prolific correspondent. This is the first monograph on de Thou since Samuel Kinser's bibliographical study of 1966. In the course of five chapters, thematically arranged between a substantial introduction and a dramatic conclusion, Ingrid De Smet meticulously unpicks de Thou's strategies of self-fashioning and career enhancement as well as the conditions that led to his fall from grace. In doing so, this monograph not only rehabilitates de Thou as a creative (neo-Latin) writer of international allure, it also uncovers and contextualizes the complexities of de Thou's life, writings, and thought.
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Negotiating Conflict and Controversy in the Early Modern Book World
The early modern European book world was confronted with many crises and controversies. Some conflicts were of such monumental scale that they wrought significant reconfigurations of the trade. Others were more quotidian in nature – evidence of the intensely competitive and at times predatory nature of the industry. How publishing negotiated and responded to the various crises, conflicts and disputes of the age is explored by the rich and varied interdisciplinary contributions in this volume. To succeed in the business of books, printers and publishers needed to seize the advantage in the often complex environments in which they operated. What was required was determination, resilience, and inventiveness, even in the most challenging of times.
Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation
Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.
Les écrits du for privé
Contributions d'archivistes et d'historiens sur les modalités d'édition des écrits intimes ou personnels depuis le XVIe siècle : livres de raison, registres de famille, registres domestiques, journaux ou mémoriaux. Etudes sur leurs auteurs, leurs objectifs, les conditions d'édition, les formes de diffusion. S'intéresse aussi à la matérialité de ces écrits : format, reliure, paratexte, dessins ...
