Idle Pursuits - Literature and Oisivete in the French Renaissance

Idle Pursuits examines transformations of leisure in the literature and culture of early modern France. It traces a trajectory beginning with the initial detachment of the 'idle condition' from religious contemplation in the thirteenth century, to the birth of the modern contemplative at the end of the Renaissance.

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By Virginia Krause

Summary

Idle Pursuits examines transformations of leisure in the literature and culture of early modern France. It traces a trajectory beginning with the initial detachment of the 'idle condition' from religious contemplation in the thirteenth century, to the birth of the modern contemplative at the end of the Renaissance.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Krause, Krause Virginia
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611492361
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-236-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, Literary reference works