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Title Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France : essays in honour of Keith Cameron / edited by David Cowling
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages) : 1 portrait
Series Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 281
Faux titre ; 281. 0167-9392
Contents Introduction; Notes on contributors; 1. Problems of definition: ideological, chronological, linguistic; 'Voici venir d'Europe tout l'honneur': identité aristocratique et conscience européenne au XVI[sup(e)] siècle; Rabelais: Christendom and Europe; Interpreting the past: the Commentaries of Blaise de Vigenère and 'l'enrichissement de nostre parler'; 'Si le français n'y peut aller': Villers-Cotterêts and mixed-language documents from the Pyrenees; 2. Cultural exchange and political collaboration between France and England at the time of the Wars of Religion
Summary This collection of essays by ten leading British and French Renaissance specialists explores, for the first time, differing conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France. Four essays concentrate on problems of definition in ideological, chronological, geographical and linguistic terms, concentrating on the relationship between Christendom and Europe, Antiquity and its Renaissance heirs, and Latin and the vernacular languages of south-western France. A further three essays address cultural exchange and political collaboration (and, inevitably, conflict) between France and England at the time of t
Notes Festschrift
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes 5 French, 5 English contributions
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Subject Nationalism -- France -- 16th century
French -- Attitudes -- 16th century
National characteristics -- 16th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
Ethnic relations
French -- Attitudes
National characteristics
Nationalism
SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations -- 16th century
Subject Europe
France
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Cameron, Keith.
Cowling, David (David J.)
ISBN 9781429456265
1429456264
9789401203005
9401203008
9042020067
9789042020061