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Queen Marie of Lorraine and Nigel Tranter’s James V novels
Historical novels are curious things. According to Britannica, a historical novel “has as its setting a period of history” and “attempts to convey the spirit, manners, and social conditions of a past age with realistic detail and fidelity (which is in some case only apparent fidelity) to historical fact”. Tellingly, the first novel of its […]
Colloque Marie de Lorraine, 2nde partie
Été 1538. Marie de Lorraine, veuve du duc de Longueville, arrive en Écosse comme seconde femme de Jacques V Stuart. Leur mariage spectaculaire est célébré dans le bourg royal de Saint Andrews. De quelle famille vient la jeune femme, et qui sont ses modèles ? Dans quels lieux vit-elle en Écosse ? Quel est son […]
Marie de Guise ‘tyranne’?
Les 22-23 janvier 2016, l’UFR LCE de l’université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense organisait le colloque international « Le prince, le tyran, le despote: Figures du souverain en Europe de la Renaissance aux Lumières 1500-1800 ». Vendredi matin 22 janvier, Armel Dubois-Nayt parlait de Marie de Lorraine : 9h45-11h00 Le prince et le tyran […]
Modern scholarship on Mary of Guise
Throughout the Middle Ages into the sixteenth century, France and Scotland were closely allied under the banner of « my enemies’ enemy is my friend », and both were enemies of England. Mary, a woman from the powerful Guise family in France, became queen consort of Scotland when she married James V, and was the mother to […]
More sexy fruit : The penis tree and the medieval nun
Maybe you’ve already read my article Sexy fruit from Renaissance Italy and seen the picture of a young woman putting a special kind of « fruit » in her basket. I saw this surprising scene on a Renaissance plate in the Louvre in Paris when strolling around the museum. Back home, I started researching the iconography of […]