The Pleasure of Discernment

Marguerite de Navarre as Theologian

• Author(s): Carol Thysell,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 192
• ISBN_10: 0195350138
  ISBN_13: 9780195350135
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / French , Religion / History ,

Description:... In this innovative study, Carol Thysell provides an in-depth examination of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. While this collection of tales is traditionally considered to be secular in nature, Thysell argues that Marguerite de Navarre used it as a vehicle for a constructive theological program.