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- Title: To the Point: The Needle, The Sword, And Female Exemplarity in Du Bartas' la Judit.
- Author : Romance Notes
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 199 KB
Description
THE Huguenot poet Guillaume Salluste du Bartas (1544-1590) wrote his epic La Judit at the request of his patroness Jeanne d'Albret who commanded a poem about Judith sometime in the mid-1560's. (1) True to the poet's own pledge to write only about sacred subjects, the poem's narrative rarely strays from the original Book of Judith. (2) One notable exception can be found in the poem's fourth book where the female protagonist's education and daily activities are described in detail by one of her neighbors. The neighbor Cambris sings the praises of Judith's father Merari for taking great care with his daughter's education: "Le prudent Merari met toute diligence/ A faconner les meurs de ceste mole enfance ..." (4.85-86). (3) He then describes Judith's life as a successful adult. The passage serves as a testament to the importance of Christian education for women and as a guide for female behavior during courtship, marriage, and widowhood. (4) Judith is presented as a paragon of womanhood, a model daughter, wife, and widow. One of the more intriguing aspects of this description of Judith is the way she spends her spare time. When not occupied with her domestic duties, Judith reads the Holy Scripture for an hour or two each day, and her reading inspires a complementary activity when Judith recreates the stories she reads in her embroidery:
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