PDF⋙ Selected Writings: A Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Marguerite de Navarre
Selected Writings: A Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Marguerite de Navarre Selected Writings: A Bilingual Edition (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Marguerite de Navarre PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad 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. Selected Writings brings together a representative sampling of Marguerite’s varied writings, most of it never before translated into English, enabling Anglophone readers to enjoy the full breadth of her work for the first time. From verse letters and fables to mytho...