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Selected Writings: A Bilingual Edition

Selected Writings: A Bilingual Edition

Paperback

Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral PoetryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0226142728
ISBN13: 9780226142722
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 15 2008
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was the sister and wife to kings and a pivotal influence in sixteenth-century France. An astute politician and diligent humanist, she was a champion of gender equality and the evangelical reform movement, which recognized that the clergy was more concerned with maintaining the church's power than ministering to the faithful. As the years passed and the glitter of life at court waned, however, Marguerite came to realize her true vocation: writing.

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