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Author:

Bizer, Marc.

Title:

Homer and the politics of authority in Renaissance France / Marc Bizer.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xii, 245 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

France--Politics and government--16th century.
Monarchy--France--History--16th century.
Renaissance--France.
France--Intellectual life--16th century.
Authority--History--16th century.
Homer--Influence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Classical presences.

ISBN:

019973156X
9780199731565

OCLC:

(OCoLC)682903070

LCCN:

2010046492

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)