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Clement Marot and Religion: A Re-Assessment in the Light of His Psalm Paraphrases

  • Hardback
  • 450 pages
  • Publisher: Brill

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Famous mainly for his chansons and epigrams, the French poet Clement Marot (1496-1544) also supplied the texts for the Huguenot Psalter. Did he only paraphrase the Psalms to do Marguerite de Navarre, the leading lady of reform-oriented France, a favour, or was there more to it? This book offers a new approach to this question, which has got stuck in a yes-no discussion. A breakthrough is forced by the author's focussing on the Psalm paraphrases themselves, which until now have never actually been included in Marot research. Analysed from a multidisciplinary perspective the successive versions of these paraphrases reveal that Marot was interested in reaching a consistent, literary, and historically reliable versification of the Psalms, thus implicitly questioning the traditional christological exegesis. The author's perusal of Jewish exegetical insights (Kimhi, Ibn Ezra) in Martin Bucer's Commentary shows where Marot acquired a satisfactory hermeneutical framework.

  • Title

    Clement Marot and Religion: A Re-Assessment in the Light of His Psalm Paraphrases

  • Author

    Dick Wursten

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    May 2010

  • Weight

    804g

  • Page Count

    450

  • ISBN

    9789004184565

  • ISBN-10

    9004184562

  • Eden Code

    4708750

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