A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre

Eleven scholars offer new appreciations of Marguerite de Navarre's rich and varied oeuvre: her mystical poetry, plays, and short-story collection, and her efforts to promote a living faith and a renewal of the Church based on Evangelical principles.

About the author

Gary Ferguson is the Elias Ahuja Professor of French at the University of Delaware. He has published widely on 16th-century literature and culture, notably Marguerite de Navarre, devotional poetry, women's writing, and the history of religion and sexuality.

Mary McKinley is the Douglas Huntly Gordon Professor of French, University of Virginia. She writes on Montaigne and Marguerite de Navarre and has edited and translated Marie Dentière's Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gary Ferguson (Editor), Mary B McKinley (Editor), Mary B. McKinley (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2013
• EAN: 9789004221895
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22189-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 239 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Brill's Companions to the Chri
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages