This book offers a twofold reflection on the poetics of the novel in the eighteenth century, both as it was practiced then, and as we can rethink it today, particularly in view of the many claims of authenticity that can be found ...

Never reissued since its one and only publication in 1612, Le Palais des Curieux by Béroalde de Verville (1556-1626) is nonetheless one of the most interesting works by this writer. It not only captures the spirit of Béroalde...

Regnault et Janneton is a subtle and delicate pastoral poem that tells the bucolic story of the love between the shepherd Regnault and the shepherdess Janneton. The characters serve as doubles for King René of Anjou and his newly wed queen, Jeanne...

The present work addresses the question of what it was like to be a foreigner during the Renaissance and the Reformation. It adopts a three-tiered approach with three different scales of observation: ...

Like Perceval in the Castle of the Grail, reading means beginning a path of transformation that opens the heart's eyes. Puzzling out a text means also acquiring another point of view. Understanding oneself through a text, as old as it may be,...

Post tenebras lex proposes a study of the nature, the origin, the use, the function, the circulation and the meaning of testimony in Calvinist historiography during the period of the Wars of Religion. ...

This work examines the reception and art history of naturalism in sculpture during the nineteenth century, focusing on the vision of the body and the interaction between animation and petrification...

Petrarch is well-known as a model of formal perfection in Renaissance love poetry. Among his works, his Trionfi were the first written in verse and in Italian. Around 1500, the French courtier and author in his own right...