Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France

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Contents: Introduction. Part I The Nature of Memory: Two queens, a dog, and a purloined letter: on memory as a discursive phenomenon in late Renaissance France, David LaGuardia 'M'en souvenant, je m'oblie moymesmes': Delie as Memento Mori, Brooke Di Lauro Soundscapes of the Wars of Religion: sensory crisis and the collective memory of violence, Amy C. Graves-Monroe. Part II Re-viewing the Wars of Religion: Communion, Cannibalism, and Testimony: Communities under siege: Lery, famine, and the cannibal within, Hope Glidden Fathers and sons: paternity, memory, and community in Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne's Histoire Universelle, Kathleen P. Long Agrippa d'Aubigne's Tragiques as testimony, Andrea Frisch From communion to communication: the creation of a Reformation public through satire, George Hoffmann. Part III Remembering People and Places: Brantome's Dames illustres: remembering Marguerite de Navarre, Dora E. Polachek How memory constitutes nations in Louis Le Roy's Vicissitude, Nicolas Russell Montaigne and the will not to forget, Elisabeth Hodges. Part IV Memory, Identity, Alterity: Memory and forgetting in Louis Le Roy's presentation of the androgyne, Marian Rothstein Cannibalism and cognition in Jean de Lery's Histoire d'un voyage, Cathy Yandell The struggle for cultural memory in Ronsard's Discours des miseres de ce temps, Marcus Keller Witchcraft and subjectivity: the trial of the witches of Marlou (1582-83), Virginia Krause. Works cited Index.