Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of the Renaissance

Patricia Francis Cholakian and Rouben Cholakian

revised edition
March, 2006
Cloth, 448 pages, 14 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13412-5
$43.50 / £25.50

"A sympathetic, richly-colored portrait of an extraordinary woman." — Mary B. McKinley, Renaissance Quarterly

"A well-written, engrossing biography, a welcome addition to any medievalist’s library" — Mihaela Luiza Florescu, Comitatus

"This thorough, well-written volume is necessary and informative reading." — Leanna Bridge Rezvani, Sixteenth Century Journal

"Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this definitive biography by two major scholars of the early modern period provides a comprehensive, personalized and lively account of the life and times of the French Renaissance's most important female

prose writer." — Carla Freccero

, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Queer/Early/Modern

"Scholarly and lively, this book—the first of its kind in English—brings to life the career of one of the most brilliant women of her age through the evidence of her own letters, poems, and prose." — Robert Knecht, University of Birmingham, author of The Valois: Kings of France 1328-1589

Related Subjects

• European History

About the Author

Patricia F. Cholakian was professor emerita at Hamilton College. She was the author of Rape and Writing in the Hemptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre and Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France. Rouben C. Cholakian is professor emeritus at Hamilton College and the author of The Bayeux Tapestry and the Ethos of War and The Troubadour Lyric: A Psychocritical Reading.

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