ScriptaManent 2026-06-08T20:13:17+02:00 1 46806 Bib Article https://heurist.huma-num.fr/heurist/?recID=46806&db=ScriptaManent 2024-11-23 10:35:48 2024-11-23 10:42:47 public The Seymour Sisters. Elegizing Female Attachment 46808 "History has forgotten the Seymour sisters. Although they were important as potential marriage partners, used by their father to broker alliances, they also created a stir among the members of La Pleiade with their publication of 104 Latin distichs paying tribute to the recently deceased Marguerite de Navarre. The sophisticated word plays and allusions of their <i>Hecatodistichon</i> (1550) show a close familiarity with the writing of the Protestant-sympathizing French queen and a perceptive awareness of the coupling of spiritual and secular ambitions. This essay offers the first English translation of their work after situating it in a reconstructed context." https://doi.org/10.2307/2544708 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2544708 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/2544708 343 365 46810 46803 46839 46850 46854 1