Jacket illustration: Ink drawing on parchment from a sixteenth-century manuscript edition of L'Heptaméron (Pierpont Morgan Library M.242, f. vi verso). Courtesy of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Copyright © 1993 by the University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Critical tales: new studies of the Heptameron and early modern culture / edited by John D. Lyons and Mary B. McKinley. P. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8122-3206-2 1. Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549. Heptaméron. 2. Characters and characteristics in literature. 3. Narration (Rhetoric). 4. Rhetoric -- 1500-1800. 5. Literary form. I. Lyons, John D., 1946-. II. McKinley, Mary B. PQ163I.H4C75 1993 843'.3 -- dc20 93-26575 CIP -iv- |