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Author Williams, Wes

Title Pilgrimage and narrative in the French Renaissance : the undiscovered country / Wes Williams
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 326 pages) : facsimile
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Contents Representing Pilgrimage -- Charting the Journey: Structure and Selection -- 'Langages Pellegrins': Pilgrim Rhetoric -- pt. I. Coming to Terms: The Subject of Pilgrimage. 1. 'Linguae Peregrinae': Pilgrim Tongues. The Politics of Plain Speech: Erasmus' Dialogue. A Crisis of Response: Petrarch's Letter. The 'Lust of Knowing': Fabri's Narrative. 'De Peregrinatione Studiorum Causa': Augustine's Lesson. 2. Renaissance Guides to Pilgrimage. Pilgrims and Authors. The Material Details and the Cost of the Journey. Resistance to Method. The Spiritual Details and the Cost of Curiosity. Pilgrim Method. 3. 'Le Jargon des Errans': Arguments Against Pilgrimage. Gregory of Nyssa: Deffence (de Voyager). Gregory's Letter: Translations and Editions
Summary Wes William's text represents the first full-length study of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. As well as a penetrating study in genre the book is also an exploration of the politics of literature & popular culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index
Notes English
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Subject Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- History
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Christian literature -- History and criticism
French literature -- History and criticism
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Renaissance -- France
Christian literature.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
French literature.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Renaissance.
Christianity.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
France.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98027486
ISBN 9786610764969
6610764964
9780198159407
0198159404
9780191673610
0191673617
1280764961
9781280764967