Clément Marot and Religion
A Re-assessment in the Light of his Psalm Paraphrases
Biographical note
Dick Wursten (1960), PhD in Church History, VU University Amsterdam (2009), is active on the interface between theology, history, and culture (especially poetry and music), with a preference for early sixteenth-century France. He lives in Antwerp and in daily life works for the religious education inspection in Flanders.
Readership
All those interested in French Renaissance literature, Church history of the sixteenth century, the Huguenot Psalter, and the history of the exegesis and hermeneutics of the Psalter, mainly the influence of Jewish exegesis in the early stages of the Reformation.
Reviews
“a major contribution to Marot studies”
(François Rigolot, Princeton)
“What Dick Wursten offers in this detailed and closely argued study is an integrated investigation of the output of this important sixteenth-century poet […]. Wursten […] evaluates Marot’s religion as being much more theologically nuanced than is generally understood ”.
Robin A. Leaver, Yale. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 63, No. 4 (October 2012), pp. 816-817.
(François Rigolot, Princeton)
“What Dick Wursten offers in this detailed and closely argued study is an integrated investigation of the output of this important sixteenth-century poet […]. Wursten […] evaluates Marot’s religion as being much more theologically nuanced than is generally understood ”.
Robin A. Leaver, Yale. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 63, No. 4 (October 2012), pp. 816-817.
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