![]() This is a full-cast production, narrated by Cate Barratt and featuring the voices of Linda Barrans, John Burlinson, Mark Crowle-Groves, Denis Daly, Susan Iannucci, Grace Keller Scotch, Jeff Moon, Sara Morsey, Kendra Murray, and Graham Scott. The Heptameron of Margaret Queen of Navarre AN OFF-LINE INDEX Translated by George Saintsbury Illustrated HTML Edition Edited by David Widger Project Gutenberg Editions CONTENTS Click on the before each title to go directly to a linked index of the detailed chapters and illustrations Volume 1. The stories include intimate details of adultery, flattery, betrayal, rape, and war, and their candor may startle even 21st-century listeners. Proposed as an edifying way of passing the time while a bridge is being repaired, the tale-telling - as well as the conversations that follow each story - quickly becomes a battle of wits between the sexes, with tales concerning illicit lovers, romantic conquests, lecherous monks, manly honor (and their opposite), and women's virtue (and their opposite). Her masterpiece, The Heptameron, is a collection of some 72 stories told by five gentlemen and five ladies who find themselves stranded in an abbey. She was the wife of both Charles IV, duke of Alençon, and Henry II of Navarre, and the grandmother of King Henry IV of France. The wife of a dukes valet shields her lover from her better half in the sixth tale. ![]() ![]() Queen Marguerite de Navarre (April 11, 1491-December 21, 1549) was one of the most powerful women of her age, having helped to negotiate the Treaty of Cambrai, known as the Ladies' Peace. In the fifth tale, a boat woman of Coulon tries to escape from a couple of merciless Gray Friars. ![]()
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