Marguerite de Navarre s Heptameron, composed in the 1540s and first published posthumously in 1558 and 1559, has long been an interpretive puzzle. De Navarre (1492-1549), sister of King Francis I of France, was a controversial figure in her lifetime. Her evangelical activities and proximity to the Crown placed her at the epicenter of her country s internecine strife and societal unrest. Yet her short stories appear to offer few traces of the sociopolitical turbulence that surrounded her.In Marguerite de Navarre s Shifting Gaze, however, Elizabeth Zegura argues that the...
Marguerite de Navarre s Heptameron, composed in the 1540s and first published posthumously in 1558 and 1559, has long been an interpretive p...
