Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France

Essays in Honour of Keith Cameron
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-420-2006-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 281, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

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This collection of essays by ten leading British and French Renaissance specialists explores, for the first time, differing conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France. Four essays concentrate on problems of definition in ideological, chronological, geographical and linguistic terms, concentrating on the relationship between Christendom and Europe, Antiquity and its Renaissance heirs, and Latin and the vernacular languages of south-western France. A further three essays address cultural exchange and political collaboration (and, inevitably, conflict) between France and England at the time of the Wars of Religion,exploring Catholic and Protestant reactions to the battle of Lepanto, Anglo-French Protestant espionage and pragmatic conceptions of the state based on geography rather than religion. The final three contributions focus on the construction of a European identity in the early modern period that defines itself in contrast to a significant other, be it Islamic or ‘Atlantic’, with particular reference to the presentation of Turkish characters in the work of Christian writers, exotic travel in the work of François Rabelais and the genre of the Livre des contrariétés. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of French Renaissance literature and to those interested in the prehistory of our contemporary conception of Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cowling, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

David COWLING: Introduction
Notes on contributors
1. Problems of definition: ideological, chronological, linguistic
Jean BALSAMO: ‘Voici venir d’Europe tout l’honneur’: identité aristocratique et conscience européenne au XVIe siècle
Ian MORRISON: Rabelais: Christendom and Europe
Margaret M. MCGOWAN: Interpreting the past: the Commentaries of Blaise de Vigenère
and ‘l’enrichissement de nostre parler’
David TROTTER: ‘Si le français n’y peut aller’: Villers-Cotterêts and mixed-language documents from the Pyrenees
2. Cultural exchange and political collaboration between France and England at the time of the Wars of Religion
Yvonne BELLENGER: Sur La Lepanthe de Du Bartas
Marie-Madeleine FRAGONARD: Aubigné et l’Angleterre, après Elizabeth: esquisse de rencontres problématiques
Yvonne ROBERTS: Towards a pragmatic recognition of religious diversity: the struggle to form a royalist consensus in the early poems of Jean-Antoine de Baïf
3. Alterity and the construction of a European identity
Michael HEATH: Foolish or fearsome Franks? The supposed Ottoman view of European Christians in the sixteenth century
Françoise CHARPENTIER: Le périple des Pantagruéliens, ou l’ancien et le nouveau
Frank LESTRINGANT: Le Livre des Contrariétés: l’Occident, le Turc et les autres

Über Autor(innen)

David Cowling is Professor of French at Durham University and specialises in French literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He is the author of Building the Text: Architecture as Metaphor in Late Medieval and Early Modern France (OUP, 1998) and the editor of George Chastelain et al., Les Douze Dames de Rhétorique (Droz, 2002). Between 1993 and 2001 he was a colleague of Keith Cameron in the Department of French at the University of Exeter.