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Japan and Europe: the Christian Century, 1549-1650 1920Įnglish Puritans, Quakers, Dissenters, and Recusants Marguerite’s second marriage to Henri d’Albret, king of Navarre, resulted in a daughter, Jeanne, the future spouse of Henri IV.īlack Death and Plague: The Disease and Medical ThoughtĬhurch Fathers in Renaissance and Reformation Thought, TheĬoncepts of the Renaissance, c. As an avid and faithful patron of the arts, she had considerable influence that can still be discerned in France today. At Nérac, Marguerite gathered around her artists, thinkers, and writers whom she encouraged. Both her life and her writings were to inspire many other French men and women writers (among them Hélisenne de Crenne) many of them “evangelical” (such as Anne de Marquets). In many respects, Marguerite was what we would today call a Renaissance woman, for she was intimately involved in court life, the artistic production of the day, political and diplomatic negotiations, and contemporary educational (“humanist”) and religious discussions and controversies. Indeed, when François I (whom she adored) was taken prisoner in Italy, Marguerite was instrumental in securing his eventual release.

Married to the unsatisfying, unintelligent Charles, duc d’Alençon, Marguerite began to come into her own upon her brother’s ascension to the throne in 1515. She was an avid reader whose own literary production was to be much influenced by figures such as Plato, Plutarch, and Boccaccio. Marguerite’s mother had insisted on a solid humanist education for her like her brother, Marguerite was proficient in Latin, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian, and read philosophy and theology. The highly cultured, erudite, and learned Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) was the daughter of Charles d’Angoulême and Louise de Savoie, and the sister of the Renaissance king François I.

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