Scandalous Women or Scandalous Judgment?: The Social Perception of Women and the Theology of Scandal in the Heptaméron

Francis, Scott

doi:10.1353/esp.2017.0027

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“…Longarine's vision and vocabulary of scandal-offence commonly accompanies, or even replaces, scandal in French bibles and discussions-is close to the Calvinist view of the scandal as an obstacle that should nevertheless prompt self-examination. 81 Longarine similarly suggests that offence should be welcomed by the sinful subject as a forced step towards (painful and difficult) self-knowledge. This is precisely the lesson that the archetypal hypocrites of the Heptaméron, the Franciscans, are incapable of: as Oisille puts it in her introduction to nouvelle 23, they practise "l'ypocrisye de ceulx qui s'estiment plus relligieux que les autres" (229).…”

Section: Hypocrisy and Civility: Nouvelle 52mentioning

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Necessary Leaven: Hypocrisy and the Heptaméron

Butterworth

2020

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Hypocrisy is a recurring concern in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, part of the wider dynamic of dissimulation, pretence, and exposure explored in the storytelling project. This article discusses the contexts in which hypocrisy is revealed and debated in the Heptaméron. While clerical and feminine hypocrisies are familiar from medieval discussions of lecherous friars and unchaste women, Marguerite de Navarre’s evangelical emphasis presents hypocrisy more generically as an inevitable consequence of the Fall. Beyond general statements about the human condition, there emerges a more nuanced condemnation of hypocrisy that acknowledges relative positions of power and exploitation.

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Section: Hypocrisy and Civility: Nouvelle 52mentioning

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Necessary Leaven: Hypocrisy and the Heptaméron

Butterworth

2020

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What Does Rape Look Like?

Peterson

2023

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From the late Middle Ages into the Renaissance, a handful of narratives about sexual assault dominated Western Europe. In the seventeen novellas of Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron (1559) that feature assault or attempted assault, these different narratives coexist. To date, scholarship has not extensively explored the relationship between the novellas of the Heptaméron and the first two sets of engravings to accompany them—those of Dutch artist Romeyn de Hooghe, in 1698, and those of S. Freudenberger and A. Dunker, in 1780–1781. This article addresses that gap, and, by means of a comparative reading, considers different narratives about sexual assault in the novellas and frame of the Heptaméron alongside these first two sets of visual engravings. It argues that the engravings more closely follow other visual tropes of rape than they do the text. In so doing, these first images of the Heptaméron favor more canonical representations of sexual assault that either heroicize, eroticize, or blame the subject of rape. What is lost is the polyvalence of the text; in particular, moments that document the responses and reactions of the women in the novellas and the opinions they put forth in the frame.

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Les pièges de la « parfection » – Sur les équivoques de la beauté féminine dans L’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre

Dembruk

2024

Renaiss. Reform.

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Dans l’Heptaméron (1559) de Marguerite de Navarre, la beauté est à la fois l’une des manifestations les plus tangibles et les plus ambiguës de la perfection. La beauté féminine, en particulier, semble enfermée dans un paradoxe. Cet article propose une lecture de la beauté féminine à travers deux grilles de lecture, en soulignant, premièrement, une perspective chrétienne pessimiste sur la perfection terrestre afin, deuxièmement, de comprendre les ambiguïtés de la beauté féminine dans le discours des contes d’amour courtois. Marguerite de Navarre subvertit les lectures univoques de la beauté féminine qui sont principalement déterminées par les discours masculinistes et les interprétations genrées de la perfection. En ajoutant un sens chrétien de la perfection, elle autorise des formes alternatives et paradoxales de perfection féminine, telles que le manque d’attraits, voire la laideur des femmes.

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Scandalous Women or Scandalous Judgment?: The Social Perception of Women and the Theology of Scandal in the Heptaméron

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Necessary Leaven: Hypocrisy and the Heptaméron

Necessary Leaven: Hypocrisy and the Heptaméron

What Does Rape Look Like?

Les pièges de la « parfection » – Sur les équivoques de la beauté féminine dans L’Heptaméron de Marguerite de Navarre

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