Afterlife of a Medieval Genre
TheNouvelle légende dorée(1790) of Sylvain Maréchal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7093900 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheila Delany (Simon Fraser University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-43 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Exemplaria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-2573 • E-ISSN: 1753-3074 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/104125710x12670926011752 |
| OpenAlex | W1978049889 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
In his Nouvelle légende dorée (1790), the revolutionary atheist journalist Sylvain Maréchal appropriated and reworked a medieval genre, the legendary, to expose the vices of the Catholic Church and to win his reader, especially his woman reader, away from religion and to revolutionary values of family and citizenship. I have translated and annotated this book-length text, but my annotated translation is not yet published as of this writing. This essay brings the work and its author to an anglophone audience, setting them in the context of a particular moment in the French Revolution and examining the rhetorical tactics and critical strategies Maréchal deployed to satirize the theory, practice, and personnel of the Catholic Church
Afterlife · Art · Citizenship · Context (archaeology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |