Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) Reference library
Gordon Campbell
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
... de Navarre ( 1492–1549 ) Catholic Reformer, also known as Marguerite d’Angoulême and Marguerite d’Alençon. Her position as sister to King Francis I enabled her to act as patron and protector to Protestants. She supported the reforms in the diocese of Meaux led by Briçonnet , and entered into an extensive correspondence with him on spiritual matters. She was not a Protestant, but her thinking was informed by Lutheran and Calvinist doctrine, and by the spiritual libertinism deplored by Calvin. These sympathies associated her with the movement known in...
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Book
... de Navarre ( 1492–1549 ) Sister of François I and patron of humanism in France. She was close to Briçonnet’s proto-Protestant circle, and her Miroir de l’âme pécheresse (three editions were printed by *Augereau ) was condemned by the Sorbonne in 1533 . Semi-exiled in Navarre after 1534 , she continued to protect persecuted writers and printers (Marot, *Dolet ). Her masterpiece, a volume of tales imitated from Boccaccio, was posthumously published in 1558 as Heptameron . Vincent...
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
... de Navarre (also known as Marguerite d'Angoulême or d'Alençon ) ( 1492–1549 ). Born in Angoulême, daughter of Charles d'Angoulême and Louise de Savoie , she received the same humanist education as her younger brother, the future François I er . She was married in 1509 to Charles d'Alençon ( d. 1525 ), then in 1527 to Henri d'Albret , king of Navarre . Her daughter, Jeanne d'Albret , was mother of the future Henri IV . Throughout her life she was intimately involved in the political life of France, particularly in the period...
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) Reference library
Reinier Leushuis
The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine
... of Silence. A Reading of Marguerite de Navarre's Poetry (Washington 1986). G. Ferguson , Mirroring Belief. Marguerite de Navarre's Devotional Poetry (Edinburgh 1992). C. La Charité , ‘Rhetorical Augustinianism in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron ’, Allegorica 23 (2002) 55–88. R. Leushuis , ‘Dialogue, Self, and Free Will. Marguerite de Navarre's Dialogue en forme de vision nocturne ...
Marguerite de Navarre
Love’s Labour’s Lost Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...French court: King Henri of Navarre did have two lords called the Maréchal de Biron and the Duc de Longueville, who served as commanders in the French civil war from 1589 to 1592 . Biron was widely known in England, since he became an associate and adviser of the Earl of Essex when he led an English force to Henry’s aid. It has been conjectured that the main story of Love’s Labour’s Lost may derive from a now-lost account of a diplomatic visit to Henry in 1578 made by Catherine de Médicis and her daughter Marguerite de Valois, Henry’s estranged wife,...
22 The History of the Book in France Reference library
Vincent Giroud
The Oxford Companion to the Book
...Navarre , protected the reformist circle formed around Guillaume Briçonnet, bishop of Meaux. The king himself defended the biblical scholar Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, whose translation of the New Testament was issued by *Colines in 1523 , two years after the faculty of theology had banned biblical translations. But he was powerless to prevent the execution of Louis de Berquin, the translator of *Erasmus , in 1529 , and turned to repression when Lyons-printed *broadsides attacking the Catholic mass were posted in 1534 , an indirect cause of the...
Jeanne d'Albret
Marguerite De Valois
Antoine Augereau
Nicolas Denisot
Marguerite de Valois
Louise of Savoy
L' Heptaméron
House of Navarre
Charles de Sainte-Marthe
Women Writers in France
Guillaume Briçonnet
Antoine Héroët
