Queen of Navarre
Author: Nancy Lyman Roelker
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780674435735
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King's Sister - Queen of Dissent
Author: Jonathan A. Reid
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 833
ISBN-13: 9004174974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study reconstructs for the first time Marguerite of Navarre s leadership of a broad circle of nobles, prelates, humanist authors, and commoners, who sought to advance the reform of the French church along evangelical (Protestant) lines. Hitherto misunderstood in scholarship, they are revealed to have pursued, despite persecution, a consistent reform program from the Meaux experiment to the end of Francis I s reign through a variety of means: fostering local church reform, publishing a large corpus of religious literature, high-profile public preaching, and attempting to shape the direction of royal policy. Their distinctive doctrines, relations with major reformers including their erstwhile colleague Calvin involvement in major Reformation events, and the impact of their unsuccessful attempt are all explored.
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
Author: Marquerite de Valois
Publisher:
Published: 1899
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Queens Regnant of Navarre
Author: Elena Woodacre
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-09-04
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1137339152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown beyond a regional audience. This survey fills this scholarly lacuna, focusing particularly on issues of female succession, agency, and power-sharing dynamic between the queens and their male consorts.
Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France
Author: Marguerite Keane
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-05-18
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9004318836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398) Marguerite Keane considers the object collection of the long-lived fourteenth-century French queen Blanche of Navarre, the wife of Philip VI (d. 1350). This queen’s ownership of works of art (books, jewelry, reliquaries, and textiles, among others) and her perceptions of these objects is well -documented because she wrote detailed testaments in 1396 and 1398 in which she described her possessions and who she wished to receive them. Keane connects the patronage of Blanche of Navarre to her interest in her status and reputation as a dowager queen, as well as bringing to life the material, adornment, and devotional interests of a medieval queen and her household.
Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration
Author: Jeanne D’Albret
Publisher: Iter Press
Published: 2016-02-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780866985451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition presents in English, for the first time, Jeanne d’Albret’s Letters to the king, his mother, his brother, her own brother-in-law, and the queen of England, together with her Ample Declaration (1568) defending her decampment to the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle. A historical-biographical introduction situates these writings in the larger context of Reformation politics and examines in detail the specific literary characteristics of her memoir. In her works, Jeanne d’Albret asserts her own position as legal sovereign of Béarn and Navarre and situates herself at the nexus of overlapping political, religious, and familial tensions.
The Life of Jeanne D'Albret, Queen of Navarre
Author: Martha Walker Freer
Publisher:
Published: 1855
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoyal Witches
Author: Gemma Hollman
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0750993502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle – and her husband was about to fall from grace. Jacquetta Woodville was a personal enemy of Warwick the Kingmaker, who was about to take his revenge. Elizabeth Woodville was the widowed mother of a child king, fighting Richard III for her children's lives. In Royal Witches, Gemma Hollman explores the lives of these four unique women, looking at how rumours of witchcraft brought them to their knees in a time when superstition and suspicion was rife.
The Power and Patronage of Marguerite de Navarre
Author: Barbara Stephenson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 135188364X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough Marguerite de Navarre's unique position in sixteenth-century France has long been acknowledged and she is one of the most studied women of the time, until now no study has focused attention on Marguerite's political life. Barbara Stephenson here fills the gap, delineating Marguerite's formal political position and highlighting her actions as a figure with the opportunity to exercise power through both official and unofficial channels. Through Marguerite's surviving correspondence, Stephenson traces the various networks through which this French noblewoman exercised the power available to her to further the careers of political and religious clients, as well as her struggle to protect the interests of her brother the king and those of her own family and household. The analysis of Marguerite's activities sheds light on noble society as a whole.
Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin
Author: Marie Dentière
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 0226142752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Dentière (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform. She married a former priest and with her husband went to Switzerland, where she was active in the Reformation's takeover of Geneva. Dentière's Very Useful Epistle (1539) is the first explicit statement of reformed theology by a woman to appear in French. Addressed to Queen Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the French king Francis I, the Epistle asks the queen to help those persecuted for their religious beliefs. Dentière offers a stirring defense of women and asserts their right to teach the word of God in public. She defends John Calvin against his enemies and attacks the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. Her Preface (1561) to one of Calvin's sermons criticizes immodesty and extravagance in clothing and warns the faithful to be vigilant. Undaunted in the face of suppression and ridicule, this outspoken woman persisted as an active voice in the Reformation.
