Marguerite de Navarre's Shifting Gaze: Perspectives on Gender, Class, and Politics in the Heptaméron

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 Between life and literature: the many faces of Marguerite de Navarre
	Preliminary 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 years
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”
4 Upstairs, downstairs: the dynamics of class and rank in the Heptaméron
	A view from the top: looking down at the lower classes
	Cruel masters and abuses of high rank
	Excavating the underside of power and privilege: “les choses basses” as vehicles of revelation
5 Power, politics, and modes of governance in the Heptaméron
	The education of a Christian prince: positive models of governance and community
	“When malice is joined with power”: evil leaders, abuses of authority, and ethical dilemmas
	Reading between the lines: political allegory and metonymy in the Heptaméron
Conclusion
Selected bibliography
Index