02760nam 2200625 a 450 99620616890331620230725050835.01-283-21578-097866132157890-19-987570-7(CKB)2550000000042943(EBL)3054254(OCoLC)922970566(SSID)ssj0000523209(PQKBManifestationID)11366844(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523209(PQKBWorkID)10542685(PQKB)10837073(StDuBDS)EDZ0000054757(MiAaPQ)EBC3054254(EXLCZ)99255000000004294320101102d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHomer and the politics of authority in Renaissance France[electronic resource] /Marc BizerNew York ;Oxford Oxford University Press20111 online resource (258 p.)Classical presencesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-991847-3 0-19-973156-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Classical presences.MonarchyFranceHistory16th centuryRenaissanceFranceAuthorityHistory16th centuryFrancePolitics and government16th centuryFranceIntellectual life16th centuryMonarchyHistoryRenaissanceAuthorityHistory320.94401/1Bizer Marc476547MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996206168903316Homer and the politics of authority in Renaissance France244593UNISA