Managing Time: Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France (Medieval and Early Modern French Studies)

Cover
Contents
Preface
Introduction (Michael Moriarty)
	Bibliography
Chapter 1: Time Sanctified: French Influence on Vernacular Prayer (Joanna M. Barker)
	French Vernacular Books of Hours
	Bibliography
		Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
Chapter 2: Time Well Spent: Scheduling Private Devotion in Early Modern France (Mette Birkedal Bruun)
	Prologue
	Introduction
	Manuals
	Pastimes
	Imitation of Christ
	Epilogue
	Bibliography
		Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
Chapter 3: Time Materialized: Mme de Maintenon’s Petits Livres Secrets as Instruments of Devotion (Lars Cyril Nørgaard)
	General Description
	Content
	Author: Agency
	Spiritual Dialogue
	Autograph and Epigraph
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Jesuit Time in Early Seventeenth-Century France (Thomas Worcester, S. J.)
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: The Good Times and the Bad: François Maynard’s Reflections on his Past and Future (Adam Horsley)
	Bibliography
		Manuscripts
		Printed Sources
Chapter 6: Entre prophétie et prospective : Michel de Pure,
de La Pretieuse (1656–1658) à Épigone, histoire du
siècle futur (1659) (Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard)
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Tragedy and the Weight of Time (John D. Lyons)
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: Out of Time? Untimeliness in Corneille’s Pulchérie (1672) (Joseph Harris)
	Introduction
	Untimely Characters
	Historical Disruptions
	Old Age: Martian
	Untimely Life: Tragic and Comic ‘Overliving’
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: Anticipation, the Future and La Fontaine’s Fables (Allen Wood)
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: Time: For Amendment of Life, or Gathering Rosebuds? A Jesuit Moralist and the Paradoxes of Mortality (Richard Maber)
	Bibliography
		Manuscripts
		Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
Chapter 11: Time, Death and Burial in the ancien diocèse of Le Mans (Philippa Woodcock)
	Sources and Structure
	Time and the Historiography of Death
	Burial Times in the ancien diocèse
		Social Groups
		The Unknown
		The Unlawful
		Inconsistencies
		Suspicious Corpses
		War Time
	Time, Burial and Plague
		Time of Day
	Time and Commemoration
		De-commemoration
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
		Parish Registers
		Cadastre 1842
		Archives départementales de la Sarthe
		Secondary Sources
Notes on Contributors
Index