The Pleasure of Discernment: Marguerite de Navarre as TheologianOxford University Press, 2000 - 181 pages In this innovative study, Carol Thysell provides an in-depth examination of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. While this collection of tales is traditionally considered to be secular in nature, Thysell argues that Marguerite de Navarre used it as a vehicle for a constructive theological program. |
Contents
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE AND THE TRADITION OF ALLEGORICAL RHETORIC | 3 |
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE CALVIN AND THE SPIRITUAL LIBERTINES | 19 |
THE THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE | 39 |
PROVIDENCE IN THE WORK OF CALVIN AND MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE | 63 |
MORAL DELIBERATION IN THE HEPTAMERON | 79 |
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