Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance: 'The Undiscovered Country'
Wes Williams
Abstract
This book studies the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Rabelais, Montaigne, Marguerite de Navarre, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. The book undertakes a bold exploration of various interlinking themes in Renaissance pilgrimage: the location, representation, and politics of the sacred, together with the experience of the everyday, the extraordinary, the religious, and the represented. It also examines the literary formation of the subjective narra ... More
Keywords: pilgrimage, French Renaissance, narrative, pilgrim experience, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marguerite de Navarre, Erasmus, Petrarch, Gregory of Nyssa
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1998 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198159407 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159407.001.0001 |
