Free Download Clment Marot and Religion by Dick Wursten
English | May 20, 2010 | ISBN: 9004184562 | 451 pages | PDF | 5.55 Mb
Famous mainly for his chansons and epigrams, the French poet ClĂ©ment Marot (1496-1544) also supplied the texts for the Huguenot Psalter. Did he only paraphrase the Psalms to do Marguerite de Navarre, the leading lady of reform-oriented France, a favour, or was there more to it? This book offers a new approach to this question, which has got stuck in a yes-no discussion. A breakthrough is forced by the author’s focussing on the Psalm paraphrases themselves, which until now have never actually been included in Marot research.

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