Guest Bio
Theresa Brock is Assistant Professor of French Studies at Smith College. Her research interrogates identity and hermeneutics in the early modern era, drawing out parallels between the early modern and the modern. Her first book, The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre, appeared in October 2023 with the University of Delaware Press. Her second book project explores how factors of identity, such as gender, sexuality, social class, disability, and more, influenced interpretations of nature during the Scientific Revolution and Protestant Reformation and how these interpretations enter into dialogue with our own perspectives amid climate change.
https://www.smith.edu/people/theresa-brock
Dr Brock’s Takeaway
Free English translation of the Heptaméron:
https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/navarre/heptameron/heptameron.html
Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Brock about Marguerite de Navarre.
Tune in to hear Natalie and Dr Brock discuss:
– Marguerite’s family and early life
– The turmoil and religious changes taking place during Marguerite’s lifetime
– How Marguerite managed to exercise power in a deeply patriarchal society
– Marguerite’s religious beliefs
– Her library at Nerac
– Marguerite’s most notable works
– Marguerite’s visionary qualities
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