Renaissance Studies
Renaissance Studies

Author: Malcolm Smith

Publisher: Librairie Droz

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9782600002813

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Les articles de Malcolm Smith sur la littérature française de la Renaissance, études qui n'ont jamais négligé les dimensions polémiques et religieuses.

The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book
The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book

Author: Andrew Pettegree

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1351881892

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This study comprises the proceedings of a conference held in St Andrews in 1999 which gathered some of the most distinguished historians of the French book. It presents the 16th-century book in a new context and provides the first comprehensive view of this absorbing field. Four major themes are reflected here: the relationship between the manuscript tradition and the printed book; an exploration of the variety of genres that emerged in the 16th century and how they were used; a look at publishing and book-selling strategies and networks, and the ways in which the authorities tried to control these; and a discussion of the way in which confessional literature diverged and converged. The range of specialist knowledge embedded in this study will ensure its appeal to specialists in French history, scholars of the book and of 16th-century French literature, and historians of religion.

The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France
The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France

Author: Margaret M. McGowan

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9780300085358

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"The French vision of Rome was initially determined by travel journals, guide books and a rapidly developing trade in antiquities. Against this background, Margaret McGowan examines work by writers such as Du Bellay, Grevin, Montaigne and Garnier, and by architects and artists such as Philibert de L'Orme and Jean Cousin, showing how they drew upon classical ruins and reconstructions not only to re-enact past meanings and achievements but also, more dynamically, to interpret the present. She explains how Renaissance Rome, enhanced by the presence of so many signs of ancient grandeur, provided a fertile source of artistic creativity. Study of the fragments of the past tempted writers to an imaginative reconstruction of whole forms, while the new structures they created in France revealed the artistic potency of the incomplete and the fragmentary.