Elizabeth Chesney Zegura is Associate Professor (Emerita) of French and Italian at the University of Arizona, USA.

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• ContentsAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Between life and literature: the many faces of Marguerite de NavarrePreliminary considerations: questions of gender, periodization, and theory Genealogy, genes, and gender: the making of a princess Serving god and the king: Marguerite’s religious and political development Family matters: one body, one spirit, one faith The gathering storm: l’affaire des placards and its aftermath Marguerite’s many loves: weighing and balancing multiple loyalties Tribulations and triumphs: Marguerite’s final yearsChapter 3 Gender and patriarchy: a many-sided view Contexts and intertexts: rewriting and responding to male discourse Female icons, exempla, and real women: alternative standpoints Gendered violence and vice: making sense of "he said, she said" Respectability and its double: the underside of male power and piety The insides and outsides of patriarchy: beyond and beneath sexual difference and gender stereotypes Re-viewing marriage and infidelity: coping with an "estate of long duration"Chapter 4 Upstairs, downstairs: the dynamics of class and rank A view from the top: looking down at the lower classes Cruel masters and abuses of high rankExcavating the underside of power and privilege: "les choses basses" as vehicles of revelation Chapter 5 Power, politics, and modes of governance in the HeptaméronThe education of a Christian prince: positive models of governance and community"When malice is joined with power": evil leaders, abuses of authority, and ethical dilemmasReading between the lines: political allegory and metonymy in the Heptaméron Conclusion Selected bibliographyIndex

Elizabeth Chesney Zegura is Associate Professor (Emerita) of French and Italian at the University of Arizona, USA.

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• ContentsAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Between life and literature: the many faces of Marguerite de NavarrePreliminary considerations: questions of gender, periodization, and theory Genealogy, genes, and gender: the making of a princess Serving god and the king: Marguerite’s religious and political development Family matters: one body, one spirit, one faith The gathering storm: l’affaire des placards and its aftermath Marguerite’s many loves: weighing and balancing multiple loyalties Tribulations and triumphs: Marguerite’s final yearsChapter 3 Gender and patriarchy: a many-sided view Contexts and intertexts: rewriting and responding to male discourse Female icons, exempla, and real women: alternative standpoints Gendered violence and vice: making sense of "he said, she said" Respectability and its double: the underside of male power and piety The insides and outsides of patriarchy: beyond and beneath sexual difference and gender stereotypes Re-viewing marriage and infidelity: coping with an "estate of long duration"Chapter 4 Upstairs, downstairs: the dynamics of class and rank A view from the top: looking down at the lower classes Cruel masters and abuses of high rankExcavating the underside of power and privilege: "les choses basses" as vehicles of revelation Chapter 5 Power, politics, and modes of governance in the HeptaméronThe education of a Christian prince: positive models of governance and community"When malice is joined with power": evil leaders, abuses of authority, and ethical dilemmasReading between the lines: political allegory and metonymy in the Heptaméron Conclusion Selected bibliographyIndex

Elizabeth Chesney Zegura is Associate Professor (Emerita) of French and Italian at the University of Arizona, USA.

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• ContentsAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Between life and literature: the many faces of Marguerite de NavarrePreliminary considerations: questions of gender, periodization, and theory Genealogy, genes, and gender: the making of a princess Serving god and the king: Marguerite’s religious and political development Family matters: one body, one spirit, one faith The gathering storm: l’affaire des placards and its aftermath Marguerite’s many loves: weighing and balancing multiple loyalties Tribulations and triumphs: Marguerite’s final yearsChapter 3 Gender and patriarchy: a many-sided view Contexts and intertexts: rewriting and responding to male discourse Female icons, exempla, and real women: alternative standpoints Gendered violence and vice: making sense of "he said, she said" Respectability and its double: the underside of male power and piety The insides and outsides of patriarchy: beyond and beneath sexual difference and gender stereotypes Re-viewing marriage and infidelity: coping with an "estate of long duration"Chapter 4 Upstairs, downstairs: the dynamics of class and rank A view from the top: looking down at the lower classes Cruel masters and abuses of high rankExcavating the underside of power and privilege: "les choses basses" as vehicles of revelation Chapter 5 Power, politics, and modes of governance in the HeptaméronThe education of a Christian prince: positive models of governance and community"When malice is joined with power": evil leaders, abuses of authority, and ethical dilemmasReading between the lines: political allegory and metonymy in the Heptaméron Conclusion Selected bibliographyIndex