Outputs (28)

Metalinguistic Strategies in Early Modern Language Controversies (2024)
Journal Article
Maber, R. (in press). Metalinguistic Strategies in Early Modern Language Controversies. Early Modern French Studies, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2297092

All over early modern Europe, philologists and grammarians expressed patriotic pride in their native vernaculars and traced impressive derivations from prestigious ancient languages. While Hebrew generally held pride of place, claims of the greatest... Read More about Metalinguistic Strategies in Early Modern Language Controversies.

‘I have become all things to all men [and women] that I might by all means save some’ (I Corinthians 9:22, KJV). Theatricality and conversion in the poetry of Pierre Le Moyne (2023)
Journal Article

The exceptionally diverse and extensive literary output of the Jesuit poet Pierre Le Moyne is full of apparent paradoxes and ambiguities which have always proved a challenge to commentators, from his own contemporaries to the present day. This articl... Read More about ‘I have become all things to all men [and women] that I might by all means save some’ (I Corinthians 9:22, KJV). Theatricality and conversion in the poetry of Pierre Le Moyne.

‘La correspondance d’Antoine Galland dans le contexte des réseaux d’information internationaux’ (2020)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. (2020). ‘La correspondance d’Antoine Galland dans le contexte des réseaux d’information internationaux’. In F. Bauden, & R. Waller (Eds.), Antoine Galland, 1646-1715, Mémoires de l’Association pour la Promotion de l’Histoire et de l’Archéologie Orientales. Peeters Publishers

‘« Les hommes inspirés ont droit d’aller par tout » : esthétique de la « poésie morale » chez Pierre Le Moyne’ (2019)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. (2019). ‘« Les hommes inspirés ont droit d’aller par tout » : esthétique de la « poésie morale » chez Pierre Le Moyne’. In A. Génetiot (Ed.), Morales du poème à l’âge classique (231-248). Classiques Garnier. https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-07318-5.p.0231

La poésie fortement distinctive de Pierre Le Moyne s’inspire d’un complexe de convictions religieuses, morales et esthétiques, qu’il expose dans ses écrits théoriques et qu’il illustre dans ses vers et dans ses devises. Les intentions didactiques et... Read More about ‘« Les hommes inspirés ont droit d’aller par tout » : esthétique de la « poésie morale » chez Pierre Le Moyne’.

‘« Sans estre bien malheureux, on ne peut estre qu’un Héros [ou : une Héroïne] fort médiocre »: les femmes fortes du Père Le Moyne et l’idéal de l’héroïsme dans la souffrance’ (2019)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. (2019). ‘« Sans estre bien malheureux, on ne peut estre qu’un Héros [ou : une Héroïne] fort médiocre »: les femmes fortes du Père Le Moyne et l’idéal de l’héroïsme dans la souffrance’. In G. Schrenk, A. Spica, & P. Thouvenin (Eds.), Héroïsme féminin, héroïnes et femmes illustres, XVIe et XVIIe siècles : Une représentation sans fiction (193-203). Classiques Garnier. https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08515-7.p.0193

Cet article trace l’évolution de l’idéal de l’héroïsme dans l’œuvre poétique et théorique de Le Moyne. Pour Le Moyne, l’héroïsme n’a pas de sexe. Les femmes partagent également avec les hommes la capacité de l’héroïsme actif et martial ; mais, plus i... Read More about ‘« Sans estre bien malheureux, on ne peut estre qu’un Héros [ou : une Héroïne] fort médiocre »: les femmes fortes du Père Le Moyne et l’idéal de l’héroïsme dans la souffrance’.

‘Guiding Light: the early modern lighthouse as image and emblem’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. (2018). ‘Guiding Light: the early modern lighthouse as image and emblem’. In V. Strang, T. Edensor, & J. Puckering (Eds.), From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light (54-58). Routledge

What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this book involves the reader in a multivocal conversa... Read More about ‘Guiding Light: the early modern lighthouse as image and emblem’.

Managing Time: Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France (2017)
Book

Friendship and Rivalry in Science and Scholarship: Pierre-Daniel Huet and the Académies de Caen (2017)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. G. (2017). Friendship and Rivalry in Science and Scholarship: Pierre-Daniel Huet and the Académies de Caen. In N. Kenny (Ed.), Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France: Studies in Hoour of Stephen Bamforth, Special Issue of Nottingham French Studies (323-335)

Time: for amendment of life, or gathering rosebuds? A Jesuit moralist and the paradoxes of mortality (2017)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. G. (2017). Time: for amendment of life, or gathering rosebuds? A Jesuit moralist and the paradoxes of mortality. In R. G. Maber, & J. Barker (Eds.), Managing Time: Literature and Devotion in Early Modern France (207-226). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b11059

‘Les érudits français et l’Allemagne au XVIIe siècle’ (2017)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. (2017). ‘Les érudits français et l’Allemagne au XVIIe siècle’. In R. Maber (Ed.), La France et l’Europe du nord au XVIIe siècle (77-86). Gunter Narr

La France et l'Europe du nord au XVIIe siècle (2016)
Book

Les relations littéraires, culturelles et intellectuelles entre la France et les pays de l’Europe du Nord au XVIIe siècle, beaucoup moins étudiées que celles avec l’Italie et avec l’Espagne, sont d’une importance inestimable pour la juste appréciatio... Read More about La France et l'Europe du nord au XVIIe siècle.

‘La correspondance de Gilles Ménage: une ressource révélatrice et méconnue’ (2015)
Journal Article

‘Les réseaux de communication érudits et les pouvoirs de l’État en France au XVIIe siècle: indépendance et interpénétration’ (2015)
Journal Article

‘No Miracles Please, We’re English’ [on 16-17c accounts of Thomas More’s death] (2012)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. (2012). ‘No Miracles Please, We’re English’ [on 16-17c accounts of Thomas More’s death]. In N. Hammond, & M. Moriarty (Eds.), Evocations of Eloquence: rhetoric, literature and religion in early modern France. Essays in honour of Peter Bayley (147-160). Peter Lang

Pierre Le Moyne, Entretiens et lettres poétiques, édition critique par Richard Maber (2012)
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The Sun King and his subjects: reciprocity in a commonplace of power. (2011)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. G. (2011). The Sun King and his subjects: reciprocity in a commonplace of power. In K. Banks, & P. Bossier (Eds.), Authority & Persuasion: The Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c1450-c1800), II: Consolidation of Godgiven Power. (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change). Peeters Publishers

This is the second volume from the Commonplace Culture series. It analyses the use of commonplaces to bolster power, or sometimes to question it. The volume focuses on the seventeenth century. In the latter part of this period, the status and cogniti... Read More about The Sun King and his subjects: reciprocity in a commonplace of power..

Les Entretiens et lettres poétiques, point culminant de l'évolution poétique du Père Le Moyne. (2010)
Journal Article

Re-Gendering Intellectual Life: Gilles Ménage and his Histoire des femmes philosophes. (2010)
Journal Article

The late work of Gilles Ménage (1613–1692), Historia mulierum philosopharum (1690), is a compilation of all the information that he could gather concerning women philosophers from earliest antiquity to the fourteenth century. It made little impact wh... Read More about Re-Gendering Intellectual Life: Gilles Ménage and his Histoire des femmes philosophes..

Texts, Travel and Flying Machines: The Lost World of 17th-Century Scholarship. (2010)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. G. (2010). Texts, Travel and Flying Machines: The Lost World of 17th-Century Scholarship. In P. Scott (Ed.), Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters: Essays in Honour of Richard G. Maber (227-248). Manchester University Press

The Republic of Letters emerged during the seventeenth century as a concept to describe the interaction between scholars across Europe and beyond. While the concept was an imaginary one, it was firmly grounded in a reality of close circles of interac... Read More about Texts, Travel and Flying Machines: The Lost World of 17th-Century Scholarship..

Malherbe, Théophile de Viau, & Saint-Amant : a selection (2009)
Book

This volume offers a representative yet concise selection of the work of the seventeenth-century poets, Malherbe, de Viau and Saint-Amant. It also provides supporting documentation to bring out the unique literary personality of each, and to help mak... Read More about Malherbe, Théophile de Viau, & Saint-Amant : a selection.

The Fruits of Exile: Anglican Scholars and their French Books. (2008)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. G. (2008). The Fruits of Exile: Anglican Scholars and their French Books. In T. Carr, & R. Ganim (Eds.), NASSCFL Acta, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007 (141-151). Gunter Narr

Conveying the Unimaginable: Odoric of Pordenone's Travels and their Vernacular Translations. (2008)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. G., & Tregoning, A. (2008). Conveying the Unimaginable: Odoric of Pordenone's Travels and their Vernacular Translations. In J. Kosta-Théfaine (Ed.), Travels and Travelogues in the Middle Ages (95-134). AMS Press

Kilvert's Diary (2007)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. G. (2007). Kilvert's Diary. In R. Gameson (Ed.), Treasures of Durham University Library (132-133). Third Millennium Publishing

John Cosin's French Library (2007)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. G. (2007). John Cosin's French Library. In R. Gameson (Ed.), Treasures of Durham University Library (108-109). Third Millennium Publishing

The historic core of the rare book and manuscript holdings of Durham University is the library assembled by John Cosin, bishop of Durham 1660-72. Thanks to continuing acquisitions and enrichments, including the deposit of the library from Bamburgh Ca... Read More about John Cosin's French Library.

La ballade de Vadius (2007)
Journal Article
Maber, R. G. (2007). La ballade de Vadius. Nouveau Moliériste, 6, 103-113

'Il faut écrire à la moderne...': practical criticism and literary controversy after the death of Malherbe (2007)
Book Chapter
Maber, R. G. (2007). 'Il faut écrire à la moderne...': practical criticism and literary controversy after the death of Malherbe. In W. Brooks, & R. Zaiser (Eds.), Theatre, fiction, and poetry in the French long seventeenth century / Le théâtre, le roman, et la poésie à l'âge classique (199-214). Peter Lang

Knowledge as Commodity in the Republic of Letters, 1675-1700 (2006)
Journal Article
Maber, R. G. (2006). Knowledge as Commodity in the Republic of Letters, 1675-1700. Seventeenth-century French studies, 27, 197-208

Publishing in the Republic of Letters: The Ménage-Graevius-Wetstein Correspondence 1679-1692 (2005)
Book

This book prints for the first time two remarkable interlocking sequences of letters between Paris and the Netherlands: 40 letters from Gilles Menage in Paris to Johann-Georg Graevius in Utrecht, and 30 from the printer Henrik Wetstein, in Amsterdam,... Read More about Publishing in the Republic of Letters: The Ménage-Graevius-Wetstein Correspondence 1679-1692.