Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin

by Marie Dentière

Book Overview

Born to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Denti re (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform. She married a former priest and with her husband went to Switzerland, where she was active in the Reformation's takeover of Geneva.

Denti re's Very Useful Epistle (1539) is the first explicit statement of reformed theology by a woman to appear in French. Addressed to Queen Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the French...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226142795
• ISBN13: 9780226142791
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"