RES.21G-3002 | Fall 2023 | Non-Credit

Teaching Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron

Course Description

This site is designed for scholars and students interested in exploring Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron to help delve more deeply into this compelling writer and her texts. Resources are compiled on the site to allow easy access to information about Marguerite’s writings and her substantial influence in …

This site is designed for scholars and students interested in exploring Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron to help delve more deeply into this compelling writer and her texts. Resources are compiled on the site to allow easy access to information about Marguerite’s writings and her substantial influence in debates about religion and women in sixteenth-century France; these include extensive biographies, summaries, full texts, images and media, teaching resources, films, and a space to share ideas.

The website is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA) International license.

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Book inside cover that reads "L'Heptaméron des nouvelles de très haute et très illustre princesse Marguerite d'Angoulême, Reine de Navarre, (Le Roux de Lincy, Anatole de Montaiglon, Ed.), Tome troisième, Paris, Augustin Eudes, M CCC LXXX."
Title page of an 1880 edition of the Heptaméron, a collection of short stories from the “very high and very illustrious” Princess Marguerite of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre. (Image is in the public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.)