Theresa Brock, "The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre "
English | ISBN: 1644533081 | 2023 | 238 pages | PDF | 1452 KB
English | ISBN: 1644533081 | 2023 | 238 pages | PDF | 1452 KB
The Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarre’s status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as a visionary. In her life and writings, the queen of Navarre dissected the injustices that her society and its institutions perpetuated against women. We also see evidence that she used her literary texts, especially the Heptaméron, as an exploratory space in which to generate a creative vision for institutional reform. The
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