2015
DOI: 10.33137/rr.v38i2.25620
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What the Monk’s Habit Hides: Excavating the Silent Truths in Marguerite de Navarre’s <i>Heptaméron</i> 31

Abstract: In Heptaméron 31, Marguerite de Navarre portrays a lascivious “Cordelier” or Franciscan who takes over a matron’s household during her husband’s absence, kills her servants, and disguises the woman as a monk before abducting her. Despite its surface resemblance to Rutebeuf’s “Frère Denise,” which also unveils a Franciscan’s lechery, Marguerite’s narrative is not a simple anticlerical satire. Within it we find a critique of the over-trusting husband, metaphors of censorship, an inquest into the dialectics of … Show more

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