International Colloquium Celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Birth of Marguerite De Navarre (April 13 & 14, 1992 Agnes Scott College)

by Regine Reynolds-Cornell (author and editor)

The essays in this volume were presented at an international colloquium which took place on the campus of Agnes Scott College, Georgia, for the purpose of celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Marguerite d'Angouleme, Duchess of Alencon and Queen of Navarre. Among the topics treated in this collection are 'The Vision of the Renaissance during the Reign of Marguerite de Navarre,' 'Marguerite de Navarre, Her Circle and the Censors of Paris,' 'Le langage erotique de l'Heptameron,' 'Italian Music in French Renaissance Courts,' 'Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron and the Received Idea,' 'The Characters in Marguerite de Navarre's Theatre Profane' 'Les Prisons de Marguerite de Navarre,' as well as other subjects dealing with religiosity, poetic features of the Heptameron and the ethos of Renaissance society itself.

133 pages, Hardcover

Published March 15, 1995