The Pleasure of Discernment: Marguerite de Navarre as TheologianIn 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. |
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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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Page 156 - Heptameron, or the History of the Fortunate Lovers: Written by the most Excellent and most virtuous Princess, Margaret de Valoys, Queen of Navarre. Published in French by the privilege and immediate approbation of the King. Now made English by Robert Codrington, Master of Arts.
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| Title | The Pleasure of Discernment: Marguerite de Navarre as Theologian Oxford Studies in Historical Theology |
| Author | Carol Thysell |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0195350138, 9780195350135 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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