Renaissance

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  Joachim DU BELLAY

  La Deffence, et illustration de la langue françoyse (1549) & L'Olive

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  La Deffence, et illustration de la langue françoyse was a watershed in the poetic and linguistic debates of the mid-sixteenth century. As such, the punctuation, as well as the spelling, of the original have been preserved, in order to convey the...

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  Ma Bibliothèque poétique. Sixième partie : Poètes italiens de la Renaissance dans la Bibliothèque de la Fondation Barbier-Mueller. De Dante à Chiabrera

  Catalogue établie par Jean Balsamo, avec la collaboration de Franco Tomasi. Préface de Carlo Ossola

  Librairie Droz

  The Barbier-Mueller Foundation for the study of Italian poetry of the Renaissance has a rich collection of mainly sixteenth-century books. This catalogue gives precise bibliographic descriptions of 452 rare editions, creating a panorama of poetry...

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  La Mémoire des guerres de religion : La concurrence des genres historiques XVIe-XVIIIe siècles

  Actes du Colloque international de Paris (15-16 novembre 2002)

  Librairie Droz | Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

  The trauma of the Wars of Religion was still affecting political and religious thought at the time of the Enlightenment. A large body of literature – including official histories, pamphlets, scholarly research, memoirs, novels, and epic poetry – grew...

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  Lise WAJEMAN

  La Parole d'Adam, le corps d'Eve. Le péché originel au XVIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Les Seuils de la Modernité

  The question of origins held a particular fascination in the sixteenth century. It is no doubt for this reason – and also because of the opportunity to represent nudes – that the story of Adam and Eve was such a popular subject. Original sin, as...

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  Jean CALVIN

  Brieve instruction pour armer tous bons fideles contre les erreurs de la secte commune des anabaptistes

  Series IV. Scripta didactica et polemica

  Librairie Droz | Ioannis Calvini Opera Omnia

  Having encountered the Anabaptists in Neuchâtel, Guillaume Farel encouraged Calvin to write against them, providing him with information and the French translation of Michael Sattler’s Schleitheim Confession. Calvin was able to make use of some...

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  Cécile ALDUY

  Politique des "Amours" : poétique et genèse d'un genre français nouveau (1544-1560)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 422

  From 1544 to 1560, the vogue of the Petrarchan sonnet sequence gave birth to a new French genre: the “Amours”. From Délie and L’Olive to the many Amours by Ronsard, this groundbreaking study delineates for the first time the logics, inner workings...

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  Valérie WORTH-STYLIANOU

  Les Traités d'obstétrique en langue française au seuil de la modernité : bibliographie critique des «Divers Travaulx» d'Euchaire Rösslin (1536) à l'«Apologie de Louyse Bourgeois sage femme» (1627)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 421

  Childbirth fascinated Renaissance readers. The author charts the successive editions of some thirty obstetric treatises, from the first French translation of Euchaire Rösslin’s birthing manual in 1536 to the pamphlet by the royal midwife, Louise...

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  Annuaire-Bulletin 2005

  Société de l'Histoire de France | Annuaire-Bulletin

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  Jean CALVIN

  Sermons sur le Livre des Revelations du prophete Ezechiel,

  chapitres 36 à 48 (Supplementa Calviniana, X/3)

  Neukirchener Verlag | Varia

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  Bibliographie Internationale de l’Humanisme et de la Renaissance

  Tome 38, Travaux parus en 2002

  Librairie Droz | Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance

  The B.I.H.R. is the product of the international cooperation between eighteen countries where the Fédération is represented (for Europe: Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal...

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  Jean CALVIN

  Trois libelles anonymes

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Calvin’s writing style is immediately recognizable in these three pamphlets, the third of which has only recently been rediscovered. This critical edition by some of the best Calvin scholars definitively establishes his...

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  Pernette du GUILLET

  Rymes : 1545

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  In August, 1545, one year following the publication of Délie¸ the printer Jean de Tournes published the Rymes de gentile et vertueuse dame D. Pernette Du Guillet Lyonnoise (Rhymes by the kind and virtuous lady D. Pernette Du Guillet from Lyon). This...

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  Ariane BOLTANSKI

  Les Ducs de Nevers et l'Etat royal : genèse d'un compromis (ca 1550 - ca 1600)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 419

  The relationship between the dukes of Nevers and the French monarchy in the second half of the sixteenth century was not a ruthless power struggle, as is commonly thought, but a mutually beneficial alliance. The Nevers did not attempt to maintain...

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  Education, Transmission, Rénovation à la Renaissance

  Librairie Droz | Cahiers du GADGES

  ‘Education’, ‘transmission’, and ‘renovation’ were the keywords of a colloquium on the Renaissance organized by the CRCI and the GADGES. The invention of the printing press had a major effect on the imparting of education. Humanism is full of examples...

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  HENRI III ROI DE FRANCE

  Lettres

  T. VI (4 janvier 1583-20 mars 1585)

  Société de l'Histoire de France | Annuaire-Bulletin

  Ce sixième volume couvre une période d'espoir puis de nouvelle montée des périls autour de Henri III : efforts de pacification et de réforme du royaume appuyés par l'assemblée de Saint-Germain, crise avec le roi de Navarre, ouverture de la succession...

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  Le Temps des beaux sermons

  Librairie Droz | Cahiers du GADGES

  The year 2004 was marked by the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of the two greatest French preachers, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704) and Louis Bourdaloue (1632-1704). Before them, talented orators such as Du Perron and Saint Francis de...

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  Madeleine JEAY

  Le Commerce des mots : L'usage des listes dans la littérature médiévale (XIIe-XVe siècles)

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  Authors as diverse as Hugo, Borges or Perec introduce lists - be they of epic heroes, of plants or animals - in their literary works, but lists were already widespread in medieval literature. The range varies, from lists of works exhibited by...

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  Ingrid A. R. De SMET

  "Thuanus" : The Making of Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 418

  The Parisian magistrate Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) was a major figure in the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598) and their immediate aftermath. Best known for his magisterial History of his own times (covering 1546-1607) and his complementary...

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  Le Lexique métalittéraire français (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)

  Librairie Droz | Renaissance n° 77

  The vocabulary used to describe the stylistic aspects of a literary text evolved considerably in France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Twelve studies, each focusing on one entry in the Lexique métalittéraire français, are preceded by an...

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  Matei CAZACU

  L'Histoire du prince Dracula en Europe centrale et orientale (XVe siècle)

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant

  Dracula, prince of darkness, is firmly established in the European consciousness thanks to a nineteenth-century Irish novelist, Bram Stoker. The historical figure on which the character is based was Vlad III, ‘the impaler’, who fought against the...