Abstract:This article explores the relationships between scandal and narrative in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron. Scandal was a controversial and shifting keyword in the sixteenth century: the medieval secular connotations of socially reprehensible behaviour and outrage were still current, while Protestant discussions revived its biblical sense of the stumbling block in an individual's path to salvation. The Heptaméron contains both kinds of scandal. Its stories are socially scandalous in their plots of adultery, t… Show more
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