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M. ENGAMMARE, «Castellion et le De imitando Christo de 1563 : une pure et pieuse castration» ; D. LENDERS, «La satire latine adressée par La Boétie à Montaigne»...
This second tome of the works of Sainte-Marthe contains those texts published from 1569 to 1575. Numerous poems illustrate events during this period: the third civil war, marriage of Charles IX with Elizabeth of Austria...
Anyone interested in the French sixteenth century knows at least some of the forty engravings by Tortorel and Perissin that illustrate the dramatic events of the Wars of Religion. This study examines the production, sources, and reception...
Just as volume XXI of Travaux de Littérature (2008), focusing on the spirituality of writers, aimed to prolong the Literary History of Religious Sentiment in France by the abbot Bremond, this volume returns to the theme of death, left largely untreated...
I. A Word from the general editor – II. Le dernier Diderot : autour de l'Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron – Didier Masseau, «Avant-propos» ; Colas Duflo, « Peut-on lire en philosophe sa propre actualité politique ? Le dernier Diderot...
Universal chronicle compiled in 1388 by Jean de Noyal, abbot of Saint-Vincent de Laon, the Miroir historial originally comprised twelve books which retraced the history of the world from the Creation up until 1380...
In recent years, discussion of first-person writing in the humanities and social sciences has been largely taken up with questions concerning the status of the 'self'. The objective of the analyses offered here—of sixteenth-century texts from France...
Never reprinted since its one and only publication in 1612, Le Palais des curieux of Béroalde de Verville (1556-1626) is nevertheless one of this writer's most interesting works: it allows us not only to better comprehend 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...
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,...
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...
Jean Froissart's Melyador is the last known French medieval Arthurian romance in verse. The manuscript Paris, BnF, fr. 12557 contains the only almost complete version, probably redrafted in the 1380s with the collaboration of its patron...
Étienne Dolet (1509-1546) provoked passionate reactions, both during his lifetime and after. Resurrected as the "martyr of the Renaissance" at the end of the nineteenth century, Dolet has served as a lens for studying the religious problems...
These collected studies seek to shed light on the processes of literary and linguistic affirmation during two formative periods: the twelfth-century renaissance and the French sixteenth-century Renaissance. Both periods present strong movements ...
These collected essays examine literary quarrels during the Early Modern period as a literary genre in and of themselves. The studies approach these rows through the genres that feed them and that they shape: how did the editorial context...
The fifteenth-century prose composition the Roman de Perceforest is one of the most successful literary works of the later Middle Ages. In a grandiose six-part fresco, the work evokes the adventures of the distant ancestors of Arthur ...
The originality of Claude d'Espence (1511-1572) in the eyes of historians of the Reformation is due to the nuanced positions which make this theologian the representative of « another » Catholicism, isolated from partisan rigidity...
Cinna marque une date importante dans la carrière de Pierre Corneille comme dans l'histoire de la tragédie française. Corneille est alors consacré comme le roi de la tragédie : en réaction aux critiques faites au Cid et à Horace, les efforts ...
Le 15 mars 1841, la Revue des deux mondes publie, sous la rubrique « Poètes et romanciers modernes de la France » un long article intitulé « M. Rodolphe Töpffer » sous la signature prestigieuse du grand critique Sainte-Beuve...
In 1220, when the majority of Western physicians had come to rely on the examination of their patients' urine to make a diagnosis and give a prognosis, a practitioner named Guillaume, an Englishman settled in Marseille...
In the autumn of 1856, the Revue de Paris printed in six consecutive issues a previously unpublished novel, Madame Bovary. Laurent Pichat, editor of the Revue, had demanded cuts from his author which the latter had refused...
Victor Hugo's 1856 Les Contemplations was an immense success, selling out its first edition within days. The present work is a facsimile edition of the copy offered by Hugo to his lost daughter’s brother-in-law, Auguste Vacquerie...
La Fontaine's shadow obscures the genre of fable before his advent, something which this collection of articles seeks to correct. The different studies present the growth of fable collections before the seventeenth century, preparing La Fontaine’s ...
Pierre de L'Estoile, Grand audiencier of the Parisian parliament, was as fascinated by the current affairs and curiosities of Paris's political life as he was by the sensational gossip spread by the political satires that he collected...
Perceforest tells the prehistory of the Grail through the exploits of Alexander and Arthur in a universe where paganism and Christianity are connected by enchantment...
An ellipitic continuation of the Prose Tristan, which inscribes itself in the space separating the birth of Tristan from Meliadus' new marriage with king Hoël’s daughter, the Meliadus’ romance (1235-1240) is essentially an open text...
Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557), famous neo-latin poet, native from Loudun, in France's Touraine region, held the position of official valet and poet for king Francis the First, like his colleague Clément Marot...
Scévole de Sainte-Marthe was General Controller of the Royal Finances in Poitou and Poitiers between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His Elogia, a collection of poetry, prose and other writings, offers a first-hand account of the civil wars...
Jean Golein's fourteenth-century French vernacular translation of a thirteenth-century liturgical manual illustrates a shift in medieval intellectual history...
Ce volume, comme celui qui paraîtra en 2011 sur « Les écrivains français devant les Amériques », s'inscrit dans la suite du récent colloque de l’ADIREL (mars 2008 en Sorbonne)...
This study examines the virginal female characters common in twelfth-century literature, defined by their desire for escape and love, as well as their relative freedom to act within the constraints of their innocence.
The figure of the prince as patron of letters seems almost a historiographical topos, with literary patronage too easily considered as cultural politics. However, between the 16th and the 17th century, this image was the result of a slow ...
This collection of articles investigates laughter during the Renaissance. Studies examine laughter through music and iconography, in addition to written expressions of laughter, shedding light on authors and artists...
Alexandre Dumas maintained the place of wonder in the modern novel through themes from contemporary myths, such as unlimited scientific progress, all-powerful money or distance lands...
Horror has long fascinated readers and spectators, from visions of hell in Middle Ages to apocalyptic reflections on modern times. This collection of articles sheds light on the representation of horror, and the pleasure it can provide readers.
This work examines the different editions of Mabrian, the chivalric novel continuation of Renaut de Montauban, emphasizing changes imposed by early modern printers on the original fifteenth-century manuscript.
This study shows the important literary influence of the Latin Vulgate version of the Song of Songs through the Roman Catholic liturgy. Analyses range from patristic (Origen), mediaeval (S. Bernard, Guillaume de Saint-Thierry), baroque (Bossuet) ...
Italique focuses on the Italian poetry of the Renaissance from Petrarch to the Baroque era. The aim of Italique is to contribute to a modern rereading of this extraordinary legacy.