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Record Nr.

UNISA996206168903316

Autore

Bizer Marc

Titolo

Homer and the politics of authority in Renaissance France [[electronic resource] /] / Marc Bizer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-21578-0

9786613215789

0-19-987570-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Classical presences

Disciplina

320.94401/1

Soggetti

Monarchy - France - History - 16th century

Renaissance - France

Authority - History - 16th century

France Politics and government 16th century

France Intellectual life 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Making Homer French, 1530-1560. Guillaume Bude: instituting a Homeric French king -- Jean Dorat: toward an official French Homeric idiom -- Royal mythography and its discontents: Joachim du Bellay and Etienne de la Boetie -- Homer and the problem of authority during the wars of religion (1560-1592). Homer and the war of words -- Reading Homer across the religious divide: Guillaume Paquelin & Jean de Sponde -- Trojan-French chaos: Garnier's La Troade, Homer, and raison d'etat -- Montaigne, La Boetie, Homer: from parliament to parley -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This text disputes the notion that humanists in 16th-century France were ivory-tower academics detached from the world. Through their interpretations of Homer, they participated in national debates about sovereignty and contributed to the development of a French national consciousness.