Timothy Chesters
Biographic Data
| ID | 421006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Chesters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Chesters |
| SIGNATURE | CHESTERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clare College, Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Labé and Magny Revisited
This article evaluates the suggestion, first made in 1860 and controversially developed by Mireille Huchon, that Olivier de Magny may have had some hand in the sonnets of Louise Labé. The argument proceeds in two phases. First, whereas previous scholarship has focused on Magny's Souspirs (1557), this study brings out a number of resonances between Labé's Euvres (1555) and his earlier Amours (1553). Second, whereas almost all the evidence debated …
Calvin the mimic
This essay examines some instances of mimicry in Jean Calvin’s Contre la secte phantastique et furieuse des libertins, qui se nomment spirituelz (1545). Calvin’s denunciation of the spiritual libertines, an obscure antinomian sect which had recently spread from the Low Countries to northern France, is made all the more vehement by a fear that others might confuse some aspects of their theology with his. Mimicry of his opponents’ Picard dialect is…
Demonology
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Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France
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Social Cognition
The set of procedures called variously mindreading, mentalizing, or social cognition - broadly put, the process by which we know others - is one that literature can dramatize in peculiarly intense ways. This essay describes three accounts of these procedures in current cognitive scientific debate - Theory Theory, Simulation Theory, and Interaction Theory. It is argued that each account alone struggles to capture the strange blend of immediacy and…
Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France
Caught in the grip of savage religious war, fear of sorcery and the devil, and a deepening crisis of epistemological uncertainty, the intellectual climate of late Renaissance France (c. 1550–1610) was one of the most haunted in European history. And yet although existing studies of this climate have been attentive to the extensive body of writing on witchcraft and demons, they have had little to say of its ghosts. Combining techniques of literary…
Ghost Stories In Late Renaissance France Walking By Night
Pastoral Demonology
The first part of this chapter is devoted to Ludwig Lavater's Von Gespaenstern, a treatise on ghosts which became enormously influential in France following its translation into French (1571). A detailed account is provided of the life and career of the author, of the strategy of his first publishers, and of the text itself. An example of what might be termed ‘pastoral demonology’, Lavater's text sets out above all to wrest control of lay spiritu…
Flaubert's Reading Notes on Montaigne
In summer 2008, Flaubert's reading notes on Montaigne's Essais and Journal de voyage surfaced in a British private collection. The existence of this manuscript had been known about since at least 1931, when it was sold at auction following the death of Flaubert's niece, Caroline. Its rediscovery offers the chance to reassess a much-discussed literary relationship. Scholars have long noted Flaubert's particular affection for Montaigne, an author h…
Demonology on the margins
Published in Cambrai in 1563, Robert du Triez's Les Ruses, finesses et impostures des espritz malins has good claim to the be the first prose demonology published in French. And yet Les Ruses has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. This article offers both an introduction to Du Triez and his text, and some reflections on a blind spot in the historiography of early modern French demonology. Les Ruses might be described as marginal in…
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Demonology on the margins
Published in Cambrai in 1563, Robert du Triez's Les Ruses, finesses et impostures des espritz malins has good claim to the be the first prose demonology published in French. And yet Les Ruses has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. This article offers both an introduction to Du Triez and his text, and some reflections on a blind spot in the historiography of early modern French demonology. Les Ruses might be described as marginal in…
Flaubert's Reading Notes on Montaigne
In summer 2008, Flaubert's reading notes on Montaigne's Essais and Journal de voyage surfaced in a British private collection. The existence of this manuscript had been known about since at least 1931, when it was sold at auction following the death of Flaubert's niece, Caroline. Its rediscovery offers the chance to reassess a much-discussed literary relationship. Scholars have long noted Flaubert's particular affection for Montaigne, an author h…
Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France
Caught in the grip of savage religious war, fear of sorcery and the devil, and a deepening crisis of epistemological uncertainty, the intellectual climate of late Renaissance France (c. 1550–1610) was one of the most haunted in European history. And yet although existing studies of this climate have been attentive to the extensive body of writing on witchcraft and demons, they have had little to say of its ghosts. Combining techniques of literary…
Ghost Stories In Late Renaissance France Walking By Night
Pastoral Demonology
The first part of this chapter is devoted to Ludwig Lavater's Von Gespaenstern, a treatise on ghosts which became enormously influential in France following its translation into French (1571). A detailed account is provided of the life and career of the author, of the strategy of his first publishers, and of the text itself. An example of what might be termed ‘pastoral demonology’, Lavater's text sets out above all to wrest control of lay spiritu…
Social Cognition
The set of procedures called variously mindreading, mentalizing, or social cognition - broadly put, the process by which we know others - is one that literature can dramatize in peculiarly intense ways. This essay describes three accounts of these procedures in current cognitive scientific debate - Theory Theory, Simulation Theory, and Interaction Theory. It is argued that each account alone struggles to capture the strange blend of immediacy and…
Witchcraft, Demonology, and Confession in Early Modern France
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Demonology
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Calvin the mimic
This essay examines some instances of mimicry in Jean Calvin’s Contre la secte phantastique et furieuse des libertins, qui se nomment spirituelz (1545). Calvin’s denunciation of the spiritual libertines, an obscure antinomian sect which had recently spread from the Low Countries to northern France, is made all the more vehement by a fear that others might confuse some aspects of their theology with his. Mimicry of his opponents’ Picard dialect is…
Labé and Magny Revisited
This article evaluates the suggestion, first made in 1860 and controversially developed by Mireille Huchon, that Olivier de Magny may have had some hand in the sonnets of Louise Labé. The argument proceeds in two phases. First, whereas previous scholarship has focused on Magny's Souspirs (1557), this study brings out a number of resonances between Labé's Euvres (1555) and his earlier Amours (1553). Second, whereas almost all the evidence debated …
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