Writers in Conflict in Sixteenth-century France
Author | : Malcolm Quainton |
Publisher | : Durham Modern Languages |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780907310693 |
Text in English with some contributions in French.
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Author | : Malcolm Quainton |
Publisher | : Durham Modern Languages |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780907310693 |
Text in English with some contributions in French.
Author | : Janine Garrisson |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780312126124 |
Author | : Margo Meyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The end of the French Renaissance was marked by a period of violent civil conflict, often referred to as the Wars of Religion, which lasted from 1562 to 1598. While substantial work has been done on structures of violence during this period, literary scholarship has yet to engage fully with the implications of war in the development of literary discourse. Moving beyond readings in which war is relevant only as context, I recuperate both major and minor texts of this period as a corpus that offers a sustained reflection on the problem of how to represent violence in language. Because representing war requires writers to grapple with how to use language to represent violence inflicted on physical bodies, formal literary choices become part of a broader cultural discourse of how to think about and judge war. Looking at four different genres--essays, tragedy, epic, and memoir--my analysis highlights how, in the closing decades of the sixteenth century, literary form develops in part as a discursive response to a larger problem of how to represent war. Montaigne's Essais offers a hermeneutic of war based upon the assumption that choices about representation are also ethical choices. In humanist tragedy, language becomes an expressive vehicle for shaping our understanding of virtue, heroism, and community in the context of warfare. D'Aubigné's Les Tragiques reinvigorates epic and recuperates its potential for critiquing the excesses of warfare, while Monluc's Commentaires gives voice to a new kind of war hero who is neither glorified nor martyred but who epitomizes the professional. By exploring the diverse characteristics of war writing during this period, I contribute to our understanding of the complex relationship between the activity of war and related literary production, which can be traced and studied comparatively over different periods and literary traditions to help us better understand how we shape and are shaped by our experience with war.
Author | : Natalie Zemon Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Ceremonial exchange |
ISBN | : 9780199242887 |
Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations--or do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price on every exchange? These questions are central to our sense of social relations past and present, and they are at the heart of this book by one of our most intersting and renowned historians.
Author | : Neil Kenny |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472521358 |
The age of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli produced in France too some of Europe's greatest ever literature and thought: Montaigne's Essays, Rabelais' comic fictions, Ronsard's poetry, Calvin's theology. These and numerous other extraordinary writings emerged from and contributed to cultural upheavals: the movement usually known as the Renaissance, which sought to revive ancient Greek and Roman culture for present-day purposes; religious reform, including the previously unthinkable rejection of Catholicism by many in the Reformation, culminating in decades of civil war in France; the French language's transformation into an instrument for advanced abstract thought. This book introduces this vibrant literature and thought via an apparent paradox. Most writers were profoundly concerned to improve life in the here-and-now - socially, politically, morally, spiritually. Yet they often tried to do so by making detours, in their writing, to other times and places: antiquity; heaven and hell; the hidden recesses of Nature, the cosmos, or the future; the remote location of an absent loved one; the newly 'discovered' Americas.The point was to show readers that the only way to live in the here-and-now was to connect it to larger realities - cosmic, spiritual, and historical.
Author | : Margaret Shewring |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2016-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1349197343 |
Author | : Emma Claussen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108844170 |
Explores conceptions of politics in early modern France, and the controversies the word 'politique' attracted during the Wars of Religion.
Author | : Henry Heller |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780773508163 |
Iron and Blood will permanently change the way we perceive sixteenth-century French history. Henry Heller shows that mounting social unrest in the first half of the century finally resulted in the French Civil Wars. Challenging the works of Fernand Braudel and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Heller argues that well before the 1560s, in the midst of the apparent prosperity and tranquillity of the French Renaissance, French society was marked by acute social tensions that regularly exploded in uprisings and rebellions. Heller demonstrates that the historical events of sixteenth-century France were unified by an increasing level of social conflict.
Author | : Sharon Kettering |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2024-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1040245382 |
The dual themes of this volume are the characteristics of patronage relationships and their political uses in early modern France. The first essays provide an overview of the scholarly literature and suggest that the obligatory reciprocity of the patron-client exchange was a defining characteristic. The third and fourth essays compare patronage relationships with kinship and friendship, while the following two focus on the patronage role of noblewomen. Professor Kettering then looks at the role of brokerage in state formation in early modern France, comparing this with other early modern societies. In the final section she explores the role of patronage in the religious wars of the late 16th century and in the civil war of the Fronde a half century later, and the ways in which it was affected by the changing lifestyles of the great nobles during the late 17th century.