Fr 8 Reading List 2013

FR 8: Living, loving and dying in Renaissance France
General
Cerquiglini-Toulet Jacqueline, Frank Lestringant, La Littérature française: dynamique &
histoire I (Paris: Gallimard, Folio, 2007)
France, Peter, ed., The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1995), articles ‘Classical Influences’, ‘Humanism’, ‘Reformation’, ‘Renaissance’, and
individual author entries.
Hollier, Denis (ed.), A New History of French Literature (Cambridge MA: Harvard
Univ.Press, 1989)
Kay, Sarah, Terence Cave, Malcolm Bowie, A Short History of French Literature (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 2003)
Kenny, Neil: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century French Literature and Thought: Other
Times, Other Places (London, Duckworth, 2008)
Lestringant, Frank, Josiane Rieu, Alexandre Tarrête, Littérature francaise du XVIe siècle
(Paris: PUF, 2000)
Sandy, Gerald, ed., The Classical Heritage in France (Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, 2002)
Historical Background
Bourquin, Laurent, La France au XVI e siècle (Paris: Belin, 1996)
Bely, Lucien, La France moderne, 1498-1789 (Paris: PUF, 2003)
Delumeau, Jean, La Civilisation de la Renaissance (Paris, Arthaud, 1984)
Holt, Mack (ed.), Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648 (Oxford: Oxford Univ.
Press, 2002)
Jouanna, Arlette, La France au XVI e siècle: 1483-1598 (Paris: PUF, 1996)
Knecht, Robert, The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France (HarperCollins, 1998)
Salmon, John H. M., Society in Crisis: France in the Sixteenth Century (London, 1975)
Humanism and Education
Primary texts
Joachim Du Bellay, La Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse
Montaigne, Les Essais, I. 25, ‘Du pedantisme’; I. 26, ‘De l’institution des enfans’; II. 10,
‘Des livres’
Rabelais, Gargantua (1542) chap. XXI, XXII, XXIII; Pantagruel, (1542), chapitre III,
chapitre VI, chapitre VIII
Secondary texts
Cave, Terence, How to Read Montaigne (London: Granta, 2007)
⎯The Cornucopian Text: Problems of Writing in the French Renaissance (Oxford:
Clarendon, 1979)
Frame, Donald M., Montaigne: A Biography (London: Hamilton, 1965)
Thomas M. Greene, The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in the French Renaissance
(Yale University Press: New Haven, 1982)
⎯‘Dangerous Parleys: Essais I.5 and I.6’, Yale French Studies 64 (1983), 3-23
Garin, Eugenio, L’Education de l’homme moderne: La pédagogie de la Renaissance, 14001600 (Paris: Hachette, 2003)
Grafton, Anthony and Lisa Jardine, From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the
Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe (London: Duckworth, 1986)
Hampton, Timothy, Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance
France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), esp. ch. 5
O’Brien, John (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Rabelais (Cambridge, CUP, 2008)
Trinquet, Roger, La Jeunesse de Montaigne: ses origines familiales, son enfance et ses études
(Paris: Nizet, 1972), esp. chaps 12–14 on the collège de Guyenne
The Court
Primary texts
Pierre de Ronsard, Odes (Books I and II)
The Entry of Henri II into Paris 16 June 1549, with and Introduction and Notes by I. D.
McFarlane (Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1982)
Secondary Texts
Huppert, George, Les Bourgeois Gentilshommes: an essay on the definition of elites in
Renaissance France (Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 1977)
Scott, Virginia and Sara Sturm-Maddox, Performance, Poetry and Politics on the Queen’s
Day: Catherine de Médicis and Pierre de Ronsard at Fontainebleau (Aldershot and
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007)
Weber, Henri, La Création poétique au XVIe siècle en France: de Maurice Scève à Agrippa
d’Aubigné (Paris: Nizet, 1956), ch. 2 (‘La condition sociale des poètes’)
Yates, Frances, Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1975)
Mythology
Primary Texts
Du Bellay, Les Antiquitez de Rome
Ronsard, Odes, ‘La Defloration de Lède’ and ‘Le ravissement de Céphale’
⎯Second Livre des Hymnes, ‘Hymne de l’Autonne’, narrative poems such as ‘Le
Pin’, ‘Hylas’, ‘L’Orphée’
Secondary Texts
Cave, Terence (ed.), Ronsard the Poet (London: Methuen, 1973); see ch. 4 (Terence Cave,
‘Ronsard’s Mythological Universe’)
Demerson, Guy, La Mythologie classique dans l’oeuvre lyrique de la “Pléaide” (Geneva:
Droz, 1972)
Ford, Philip, ‘Ronsard’s Erotic Diptych: Le Ravissement de Cephale and La Defloration de
Lède’, French Studies 47 (4) (1993), 385-402
⎯‘Classical Myth and its Interpretation in Sixteenth-Century France’, in The
Classical Heritage in France, ed. Gerald Sandy (Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, 2002),
331–49
Moss, Ann, Poetry and Fable: Studies in Mythological Narrative in Sixteenth-Century
France (Cambridge: CUP, 1984)
Seznec, Jean, The Survival of the Pagan Gods (New York: 1953; many reprints)
Wind, Edgar, Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance (London: 1958; rev. 1968)
Petrarchism and Neo-Platonism
Primary texts
Du Bellay, Joachim, L’Olive
Labé, Louise, OEuvres poétiques
Ronsard, Pierre de, Les Amours
Scève, Maurice, Délie
Secondary texts
Cave, Terence (ed.), Ronsard the Poet (London: Methuen, 1973); see ch. 3 (A. H. T. Levi,
‘The Role of neoplatonism in Ronsard’s poetic imagination’)
Festugière, J., La Philosophie de l’amour de Marsile Ficin et son influence sur la littérature
française du XVIe siècle (Paris, Vrin, 1941)
Ford, Philip, ‘Les Amours de Cassandre et l’héritage (néo-)platonicien’, in La Poésie de la
Pléiade: héritage, influences, transmission (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2009), 87–106
Forster, Leonard, The Icy Fire : Five Studies in European Petrarchism (Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press, 1969)
Jones, Ann Rosalind , ‘Assimilation with a difference: Renaissance Women Poets and
Literary Influence’, Yale French Studies 62 (1981), 135-53
Lecercle, François, La Chimère de Zeuxis : portrait poétique et portrait peint en France et en
Italie à la Renaissance (Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 1987)
Ideal portraits
Lecercle, François, La Chimère de Zeuxis : portrait poétique et portrait peint en France et en
Italie à la Renaissance (Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 1987)
McGowan, Margaret M., Ideal Forms in the Age of Ronsard (Berkeley, Los Angeles,
London: University of California Press, 1985)
Wilson-Chevalier, Kathleen, ‘Feminising the Warrior at Francis I’s Fontainebleau’, in
Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France: Proceedings of the Eighth Cambridge
French Renaissance Colloquium, 5–7 July 2003, ed. Philip Ford and Paul White
(Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 2006), pp. 23–59
Zerner, Henri, Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism (Paris: Flammarion,
2003)
The Individual and Self-Fashioning
Primary texts
Castiglione, Baldassare, Il Cortegiano, tr. G. Bull, The Book of the Courtier
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976)
Gournay, Marie de, Egalité des hommes et des femmes, in Marie de Gournay, ed. C.
Venoesen (Geneva: Droz, 1993)
Labé, Louise, Epître dédicatoire, in OEuvres complètes ed. François Rigolot (Paris: GarnierFlammarion, 1986)
Montaigne, Michel de, ‘De la coustume et de ne changer aisément une loy receüe’ (Essais I.
23), ‘De l’insitution des enfants’ (I. 25/26), ‘De l’affection des pères aux enfans’ (II. 8),
‘Du repentir’ (III. 2), ‘De mesnager sa volonté’ (II. 10), ‘De l’experience’ (III. 13)
Secondary texts
Cave, Terence, Pré-histoires: Textes troublés au seuil de la modernité (Geneva: Droz, 1999)
Elias, Norbert, The Civilizing Process (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994)
Grafton, Anthony and Jardine, Lisa, From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the
Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe (London: Duckworth, 1986).
See chapter 2 (‘Women humanists: education for what?’)
Greenblatt, Stephen, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Chicago:
Chicago University Press, 1980), Introduction
Jones, Ann Rosalind, The Currency of Eros: Women’s Love Lyric in Europe, 1440-1620
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990) ch.1
Kelley, Donald R., Renaissance Humanism (Boston: Twayne, 1991)
Kelso, Ruth, Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1978)
Gender Identities
Primary texts
Gournay, Marie de, Egalité des hommes et des femmes, in Marie de Gournay, ed. C.
Venoesen (Geneva: Droz, 1993)
Labé, Louise, Epître dédicatoire, in Oeuvres complètes ed. François Rigolot (Paris: GarnierFlammarion, 1986)
Marguerite de Navarre, L’Heptaméron, nouvelles 4, 5, 32, 43 and 67, ed. N. Cazauran (Paris:
Folio Classique, 2000)
Montaigne, Michel de, ‘De trois commerces’, ‘Sur des vers de Virgile’, Essais III, 3 and 5,
ed. A. Micha (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1969)
Paré, Ambroise, Des monstres et prodiges, ed. J. Céard (Geneva: Droz, 1971)
Rabelais, François, Gargantua, in Les Cinq livres, ed. J. Céard, G. Defaux, M. Simonin
(Paris: Le Livre de Poche, 1994), chapter 4
Secondary texts
Greenblatt, Stephen, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in
Renaissance England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), ‘Friction and Fiction’, pp. 66-9
Laqueur, Thomas, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Cambridge
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990) AND (for necessary critique) Park, Katharine,
and Nye, Robert, ‘Destiny is Anatomy’: Review of Making Sex, The New Republic,
February 18 (1991), 53-57
Jordan, Constance, Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models (Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 1990)
Maclean, Ian, The Renaissance Notion of Woman (Cambridge: CUP, 1980)
Religion and the Religious Wars
Primary texts
Agrippa d’Aubigné, Les Tragiques
Montaigne, Les Essais, II. 11, ‘De la cruauté’, and II. 5, ‘De la conscience’
Ronsard, Discours des Misères de ce temps.
Marguerite de Valois, Mémoires.
Guillaume Du Vair, Exhortation à la paix.
Anon., La Satyre Ménippé
Secondary texts
Carroll, Stuart, Blood and Violence in Early Modern France (Oxford: OUP, 2006)
—, Martyrs and Murders: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe (Oxford: OUP, 2009)
Cassirer, Ernst, The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy (New York:
Harper & Row, 1963)
Crouzet, Denis, Les Guerriers de Dieu: la violence au temps des troubles de religion (Paris:
Champs Vallon, 2005)
Davis, Nathalie Zemon, Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1975)
—, Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth Century France
(Stanford: Stanford University Press 1990)
Delumeau, Jean, Naissance et affirmation de la Réforme (Paris: PUF, 1997)
—, Le Péché et la Peur (Paris: Fayard 1983)
Febvre, Lucien, Le Problème de l’incroyance au XVIe siècle: la religion de Rabelais (Paris:
Albin Michel, 1942)
Greengrass, Mark, The French Reformation (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987)
Holt, Mack, The French Wars of Religion (Cambridge: CUP, 2005)
Jouanna, Arlette, La Saint-Barthélemy: les mystères d’un crime d’Etat (Paris: Gallimard,
2007)
— (ed.), La France de la Renaissance. Histoire et Dictionnaire (Paris: Robert Laffon, 2001)
—, et. al : Histoire et Dictionnaire des guerres de Religion (Paris: Robert Laffon, 1998)
Le Roux, Nicolas, Un régicide au nom de Dieu (Paris: Gallimard, 2006)
Rice, Eugene F., The Renaissance Idea of Wisdom (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1958)
Loving and dying
Primary texts
Scève, Maurice, Délie, ed. F. Charpentier (Paris: Gallimard, 1984), selected dizains
Labé, Louise, OEuvres complètes, ed. François Rigolot (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1986),
selected sonnets
Ronsard, Pierre de, Derniers vers
Sponde, Jean de, Sonnets de l’amour and Sonnets de la mort
D’Aubigné, Agrippa, Le Printemps: L’Hécatombe à Diane, ed. H. Weber (Paris: PUF,
1960), selected sonnets
Secondary texts
Ariès, Philippe, Essais sur l’histoire de la mort en Occident du Moyen Age à nos jours (Paris:
Seuil, 1975)
—, Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present (Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History, 1975)
—, Images de l’homme devant la mort (Paris: Seuil, 1983)
—, L’Homme devant la mort (Paris: Seuil, 1985)
Cave, Terence (ed.), Ronsard the Poet (London: Methuen, 1973); see O. de Mourgues,
‘Ronsard’s later poetry’
Derrida, Jacques, ‘Donner la mort’, in J.-M. Rabaté and M. Wetzel (eds), Donner la mort:
L’Ethique du don: Jacques Derrida et la pensée du don (Paris: Métailié-Transition, 1992)
Germa-Romann, Hélène: Du ‘bel mourir’ au ‘bien mourir’: le sentiment de la mort chez les
gentilshommes français (1515-1643) (Geneva: Droz, 2001)
Gordon, Bruce, The Place of the Dead: Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early
Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Hubert, Henri, and Mauss, Marcel, Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function (London: Cohen and
West, 1964)
Huppert, George, After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998)
Klibansky Raymond, Erwin Panofsky, Fritz Saxl, Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the
History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art (London: Nelson, 1964)
Muir, Edward, Ritual in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2005)
Quainton, Malcolm, Ronsard’s Ordered Chaos: Visions of Flux and Stability in the world of
Pierre de Ronsard (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1980) chs 5-7
Vieillir à la Renaissance, ed. Colette H. Winn et Cathy Yandell (Paris: Champion, 2009)
Montaigne and Ethics
Primary texts
‘Des cannibales’ (I. 31) and ‘Des coches’ (III. 6); ‘D’un defaut de nos polices’ (I. 35); ‘De la
conscience’ (II. 5); ‘De la cruauté’ (II. 11); ‘Du démentir’ (II. 18); ‘De la liberté de
conscience’ (II. 19); ‘Du repentir’ (III. 2); ‘Des boyteux’ (III. 11); ‘De la phisionomie’
(III. 12)
Secondary texts
Cave, Terence, Montaigne, How to Read series (London: Granta, 2007)
Langer, Ulrich, Vertu du discours, discours de la vertu: Littérature et philosophie morale au
XVIe siècle en France (Geneva: Droz, 1999)
Quint, David, Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy: Ethical and Political Themes in the
Essais (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)
Scholar, Richard, Montaigne and the Art of Free Thinking (Long Hanborough: Peter Lang,
2010)
Struever, Nancy, Theory as Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance (Chicago: Chicago
University Press, 1992)
Commentary and visual material
Campo, Roberto, Ronsard’s Contentious Sisters: the Paragone between Poetry and Painting
in the Works of Ronsard (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998)
Klein, Robert, ‘Thoughts on Iconography’, in Form and Meaning (New York: The Viking
Press, 1979), pp. 143–60
Lecercle, François, La Chimère de Zeuxis : portrait poétique et portrait peint en France et en
Italie à la Renaissance (Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 1987)
Panofsky, Erwin, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance
(New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, 1972; and various
other editions), especially chapter 1
Le Dialogue des arts: Littérature et peinture du Moyen Age au XVIIIe siècle, ed. J.-P. Landry
and P. Servet (Lyon: C.E.D.I.C., 2001)
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