John O'Brien's Outputs (53)

La Boétie Absolutist? An episode in the history of political thought (2023)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2023). La Boétie Absolutist? An episode in the history of political thought. Early Modern French Studies, 45(1), 30-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2202697

First published in 1652–1654 and then in a new edition in 1666, the Discours politiques of the académicien Daniel de Priézac (1590–1662) have been characterized as a statement of Aristotelian politics in the service of absolutism. The aspect of inter... Read More about La Boétie Absolutist? An episode in the history of political thought.

Montaigne beyond the Rhine: The Essais in the Work of Christoph Besold (1577-1638) (2016)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2016). Montaigne beyond the Rhine: The Essais in the Work of Christoph Besold (1577-1638). In N. Kenny, R. Scholar, & W. Williams (Eds.), Montaigne in transit : essays in honour of Ian Maclean (171-186). Legenda

This volume tracks a Montaigne in transit all the way from the genesis and production of his Essais and travel journal in the 1570s 1590s to their diffusion and reception from the 1580s up till the present day, in France, England, Germany, and elsewh... Read More about Montaigne beyond the Rhine: The Essais in the Work of Christoph Besold (1577-1638).

Montaigne: un cas intertextuel? (2016)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2016). Montaigne: un cas intertextuel?. Essais (École doctorale Montaigne-Humanités. Imprimé), Hors Serie(3), 43-55

“Le Propre de l’homme”: Reading Montaigne’s ‘Des cannibales’ in Context (2016)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2016). “Le Propre de l’homme”: Reading Montaigne’s ‘Des cannibales’ in Context. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 53(2), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqw056

This article undertakes an ‘embedded reading’ of the term ‘cannibale’ in book 1, chapter 31 of Montaigne’s Essais, bringing out the preconceptions about both the term and the Brazilian natives which Montaigne does so much to revise. Different underst... Read More about “Le Propre de l’homme”: Reading Montaigne’s ‘Des cannibales’ in Context.

Epilogue: Medieval Libraries in the Sixteenth Century: A Dream of Order and Knowledge (2016)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2016). Epilogue: Medieval Libraries in the Sixteenth Century: A Dream of Order and Knowledge. French Studies, 70(2), 228-238. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knw009

Translating Scepticism and Transferring Knowledge in Montaigne’s House (2015)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2015). Translating Scepticism and Transferring Knowledge in Montaigne’s House. In T. Demetriou, & R. Tomlinson (Eds.), The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660 (162-174). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137401496

The Humanist Tradition and Montaigne (2015)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2015). The Humanist Tradition and Montaigne. In P. Desan (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook to Montaigne. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190215330.001.0001

Le Col sous le joug, image de l’anti-nature chez La Boétie et ses contemporains (2015)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2015). Le Col sous le joug, image de l’anti-nature chez La Boétie et ses contemporains. In O. Guerrier, & L. Gerbier (Eds.), Nature et naturel. Autour du ‘Discours de la servitude volontaire (93-106). Classiques Garnier

A Book (or Two) from the Library of La Boétie (2015)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2015). A Book (or Two) from the Library of La Boétie. Montaigne studies, 27(1-2), 179-191. https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-07025-2

Tout mouvement nous descouvre: Montaigne’s Apocalypse (2014)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2014). Tout mouvement nous descouvre: Montaigne’s Apocalypse. Montaigne studies, 26, 105-116

Questions douteuses (2014)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2014). Questions douteuses. In P. J. Usher, & B. Renner (Eds.), Illustrations inconscientes: Écritures de la Renaissance. Mélanges offerts à Tom Conley (203-217). Classiques Garnier

Pierre Villey, Montaigne et Le Monde des aveugles (2014)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2014). Pierre Villey, Montaigne et Le Monde des aveugles. Corpus (Paris), 67, 91-106

Gournay’s Gift: A Special Presentation Copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne (2014)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2014). Gournay’s Gift: A Special Presentation Copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne. The Seventeenth Century, 29(4), 317-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2014.974068

A remarkable copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne at Maynooth offers a particularly full set of corrigenda in the hand of Marie de Gournay. Her many textual improvements are tabulated and their significance discussed. At the same time, this copy also... Read More about Gournay’s Gift: A Special Presentation Copy of the 1595 Essais of Montaigne.

Sun Worshippers (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2013). Sun Worshippers. In E. Gilby, & P. White (Eds.), Method and Variation: Narrative in Early-Modern French Thought. Legenda

The keywords of classical narrative theory – fable, history, and argument – open up enquiries into literality and fictiveness for subsequent generations of thinkers. This collection of essays explores the place of such enquiries in early modern Frenc... Read More about Sun Worshippers.

Montaigne, Sir Ralph Bankes and other English readers of the Essais (2013)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2013). Montaigne, Sir Ralph Bankes and other English readers of the Essais. Renaissance Studies, 28(3), 377-391. https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12026

This article deals with a hitherto unknown and unpublished early modern English manuscript account of Montaigne's Essais by Sir Ralph Bankes (1631?–77) of Kingston Lacy in Dorset. Bankes's account covers a range of features in Montaigne's work: cruci... Read More about Montaigne, Sir Ralph Bankes and other English readers of the Essais.

In Praise of the Theologie naturelle (2013)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2013). In Praise of the Theologie naturelle. The Review of English Studies, 65(269), 236-251. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgt096

This article deals with a hitherto unknown and unpublished English poem on the Theologie Naturelle of the Catalan theologian, Raymond Sebond or Sabunde. The manuscript is contained in a copy of the French translation by Michel de Montaigne held in Mi... Read More about In Praise of the Theologie naturelle.

Heart and Hearth: Some Versions of Secrecy (2013)
Journal Article
O'Brien, J. (2013). Heart and Hearth: Some Versions of Secrecy. Modern Language Review, 108(4), 1103-1120. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.108.4.1103

Stilts; or, A Not So Tall Story (2012)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2012). Stilts; or, A Not So Tall Story. In N. Hammond, & M. Moriarty (Eds.), Evocations of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Religion and Literature in Early Modern France (211-226). Peter Lang

"Plustot par licence que par mesgarde": Montaigne’s Anacreon (2012)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2012). "Plustot par licence que par mesgarde": Montaigne’s Anacreon. In Cambridge French Colloquia (141-155)

L'Oubli comme mémoire: A propos de l'amitié politique (2012)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2012). L'Oubli comme mémoire: A propos de l'amitié politique. In L. Gerbier, & S. Geonget (Eds.), Amitié et compagnie. Autour du Discours de la Servitude Volontaire de La Boétie (95-111). Classiques Garnier

Le colloque de Sarlat dont ce livre est issu a pris pour angle de lecture du Discours de la servitude volontaire de La Boétie la question - essentielle au moment des guerres de religion - de l'amitié et de la compagnie (que l'on nommerait aujourd'hui... Read More about L'Oubli comme mémoire: A propos de l'amitié politique.