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"Reveries of Community reconsiders the role of epic poetry during the French Wars of Religion, the series of wars between Catholics and Protestants that dominated France between 1562 and 1598. Critics have often viewed French epic poetry as a casualty of these wars, arguing that the few epics France produced during this conflict failed in power and influence compared to those of France's neighbors, such as Italy's Orlando Furioso, England's Faerie Queene, and Portugal's Os Lusiadas. Katherine Maynard argues instead that the wars did not hinder epic poetry, but rather French poets responded to the crisis by using epic poetry to reimagine France's present and future. Traditionally united by une foi, une loi, un roi (one faith, one law, one king), France under Henri IV was cleaved into warring factions of Catholics and Huguenots. The country suffered episodes of bloodshed such as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, even as attempts were made to attenuate the violence through frequent edicts, such as those of St. Germain (1570) and Nantes (1598). Maynard examines the rich and often dismissed body [of] work written during these bloody decades: Pierre de Ronsard's Franciade, Guillaume Salluste Du Bartas's La Judit and La Sepmaine, Sebastian Garnier's La Henriade, Agrippa d'Aubigne's Les Tragiques, and others. She traces how French poets, taking classics such as Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad as their models, reimagined possibilities for French reconciliation and unity."--Publisher's summary.

French poetry --- Epic poetry, French --- History and criticism. --- Aubigne, Agrippa d', --- Palma-Cayet, Pierre-Victor, --- Garnier, Sebastien, --- Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, --- Ronsard, Pierre de, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- France --- History --- In literature.

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Polemic and Literature Surrounding the French Wars of Religion demonstrates that literature and polemic interacted constantly in sixteenth-century France, constructing ideological frameworks that defined the various groups to which individuals belonged and through which they defined their identities. Contributions explore both literary texts (prose, poetry, and theater) and more intentionally polemical texts that fall outside of the traditional literary genres. Engaging the continuous casting and recasting of opposing worldviews, this collection of essays examines literature's use of polemic and polemic's use of literature as seminal intellectual developments stemming from the religious and social turmoil that characterized this period in France.

French literature --- Polemics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- France --- History --- Literature and the war. --- In literature. --- Polemics in literature --- 27 <44> "15" --- 27 <44> "15" Histoire de l'Eglise--France--1401-1500 --- 27 <44> "15" Kerkgeschiedenis--Frankrijk--1401-1500 --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Frankrijk--1401-1500 --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Frankrijk--1401-1500 --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- In literature