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What Did Matthieu Beroald Transmit to François Béroalde de Verville?

Author(s) -

Neil Kenny

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

nottingham french studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 2047-7236

pISSN - 0029-4586

DOI - 10.3366/nfs.2017.0193

Subject(s) - humanism , ambivalence , art , relation (database) , humanities , literature , art history , philosophy , psychology , psychoanalysis , theology , database , computer science

We understand much about the ways in which texts and the knowledge they contained were transmitted in the early modern period. But we understand less about how the transmission of texts and knowledge related to other kinds of transmission. Families helped give social status to their members by passing on tangible goods (wealth and property) and less tangible ones (such as name and reputation). How did textual transmission fit in with that broader process? I explore that question in relation to the Calvinist scholar Matthieu Beroald and his son François Béroalde de Verville. The attempt draws gratefully on Stephen Bamforth’s pioneering work on François

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