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Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration: Volume 43
Contributor(s): D'Albret, Jeanne (Author), Llewellyn, Kathleen M. (Editor), Thompson, Emily E. (Editor)
ISBN: 086698545X     ISBN-13: 9780866985451
Publisher: Iter Press
OUR PRICE:   $31.63  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography
- Literary Collections | Letters
- Literary Collections | Women Authors
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2015042129
Physical Information: 116 pages
 
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This edition presents in English, for the first time, Jeanne d'Albret's Letters to the king, his mother, his brother, her own brother-in-law, and the queen of England, together with her Ample Declaration (1568) defending her decampment to the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle. A historical-biographical introduction situates these writings in the larger context of Reformation politics and examines in detail the specific literary characteristics of her memoir. In her works, Jeanne d'Albret asserts her own position as legal sovereign of Béarn and Navarre and situates herself at the nexus of overlapping political, religious, and familial tensions.