During the French Wars of Religion, and also during the period of purported religious toleration following the Edict of Nantes, Catholic hierarchies and political institutions worked to marginalize Protestant theological and artistic expression. Yet while institutionally marginalized in most respects, evangelicals and Calvinists formed the elite corps of artists, artisans, and architects responsible for theorizing, designing, and building the royal and ecclesiastical structures of the dominant Catholic majority.
In Building Codes, Catharine Randall contends that all Calvinist architecture recalls a scriptural intertext, and seeks to build upon the firm foundations of the Gospel. These architects, instructed to erect monuments glorifying Catholic patrons, inscribe the tension between their confessional perspective and their commission upon their structures. Randall explores the ways in which structures such as Chambord, Chenonceau, the Luxembourg Palace, and the Louvre bear encoded criticisms of religious and political authority.
By examining the lives of several famous architects of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, along with blueprints, engravings, actual structures, garden layouts, builders' manuals, and illustrated allegories, this study excavates the Calvinist faith of these architects and demonstrates the dramatic effects their embattled religious perspective had on the structures they built.
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"Far-reaching, ambitious, and vibrant in style and execution. This is a book burning with fervor. It shows how groups of virtuous and self-contained individuals create spaces of mental and physical freedom in the midst of oppression."—Tom Conley, Harvard University
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Catharine Randall is Associate Professor of French at Fordham University. Among her books is Subverting the System: d'Aubigne and Calvinism.
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In an anecdote supposedly overheard by a witness to the death of Catherine de Medicis, Agrippa d'Aubigne', the Calvinist writer, emblematizes how tensions due to the political and spiritual struggles of the Wars of Religion often were expressed in architectural terms: "She turned her face toward the wall, to Marguerite, her chambermaid, whom she had allowed to retain her Protestant faith; to Marguerite who had said, Turn your eyes to the Lord, who will lift you up, she answered these words, I am overwhelmed by the ruins of my house. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In an anecdote supposedly overheard by a witness to the death of Catherine de Medicis, Agrippa d'Aubigne', the Calvinist writer, emblematizes how tensions due to the political and spiritual struggles of the Wars of Religion often were expressed in architectural terms: "She turned her face toward the wall, to Marguerite, her chambermaid, whom she had allowed to retain her Protestant faith; to Marguerite who had said, Turn your eyes to the Lord, who will lift you up, she answered these words, I am overwhelmed by the ruins of my house. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
architectural manuals, nouvelles inventions, first allegory, bad architect, religion chrestienne, maison rustique, garden grotto, confessional stance, invisible church, visual line, theological expression, good architect, divine proportions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Salomon de Brosse, Folger Shakespeare Library, Edict of Nantes, Wars of Religion, Bernard Palissy, Calvin's Institution, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, God's Word, Place Dauphine, Place Royale, John Calvin, Old Testament, Affaire des Placards, Anthony Blunt, Randall Balmer, Catholic France, Holy Spirit, Marguerite de Navarre, Olivier de Serres, Garden of Eden, Jesus Christ, Pierre de Ronsard, Catherine de Medicis, English Protestant, Holy Scripture New!
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- Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues by Randle Cotgrave on page 18, page 36, and page 111
- The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- John Calvin (Documents of Modern History) by G. R. Potter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, Vol. 3 - Symbols by Pierre Nora in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Or Brief Faithful Relation Exceeding Mercy God Christ his Poor Servant John (Penguin Classics) by John Bunyan on page 56, and Back Matter
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- Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards by William A. Dyrness on page 50, and Back Matter
- Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by Luke Morgan on page 30, and Back Matter
- Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade by Robert S. Nelson on page 230
- Early Music History: Volume 21: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music by Iain Fenlon on page 261
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