Author: Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Heptameron
Author: Marguerite De NavarrePublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141911158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired - by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron - to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. The stories, however, soon degenerate into a verbal battle between the sexes, as the characters weave tales of corrupt friars, adulterous noblemen and deceitful wives. From the cynical Saffredent to the young idealist Dagoucin or the moderate Parlamente - believed to express De Navarre's own views - The Heptameron provides a fascinating insight into the minds and passions of the nobility of sixteenth century France.
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Author: Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love stories, French
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The stories of the Heptameron are related by five men and five women for their amusement and edification after they have taken refuge in a Pyrenean Abbey from a series of disasters. Their subjects range from the bawdy to the romantic, from anti-clerical humor to serious reflections on spiritual matters.
The Heptameron
Author: Marguerite, Queen of NavarrePublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486149420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
DIVTen men and women engage in a storytelling battle of the sexes that abounds in murder, adultery, remorse, and revenge, all set in 16th-century France. Translation by Arthur Machen. /div
Author: Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre)
Author: Margarete (Navarra, Königin)
Author: George Saintsbury
Author: Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre)A Critical Edition of George Whetstone’s 1582 An Heptameron of Civil Discourses
Author: George WhetstonePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429512821
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Published in 1987: This edition seeks to make available, for the scholar and the student of Elizabethan literature, an accurate text of an Heptameron of Civill Discourses.
Author: William Whitfield Lamb