Heptameron

Download or read book The Heptameron written by Marguerite De Navarre and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired - by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron - to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. The stories, however, soon degenerate into a verbal battle between the sexes, as the characters weave tales of corrupt friars, adulterous noblemen and deceitful wives. From the cynical Saffredent to the young idealist Dagoucin or the moderate Parlamente - believed to express De Navarre's own views - The Heptameron provides a fascinating insight into the minds and passions of the nobility of sixteenth century France.

Download or read book The Heptameron written by Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Heptameron written by Marguerite, Queen of Navarre and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVTen men and women engage in a storytelling battle of the sexes that abounds in murder, adultery, remorse, and revenge, all set in 16th-century France. Translation by Arthur Machen. /div

Download or read book The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre written by Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of the Heptameron are related by five men and five women for their amusement and edification after they have taken refuge in a Pyrenean Abbey from a series of disasters. Their subjects range from the bawdy to the romantic, from anti-clerical humor to serious reflections on spiritual matters.

Download or read book The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre written by Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry II, King of Navarre) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre written by Margarete (Navarra, Königin) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Critical Edition of George Whetstone’s 1582 An Heptameron of Civil Discourses written by George Whetstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1987: This edition seeks to make available, for the scholar and the student of Elizabethan literature, an accurate text of an Heptameron of Civill Discourses.