Earthly Treasures

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Objects of Desire: Reading the Material World Metaphysically in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron
Chapter One: Telling Tableaux and Textual Resurrections: Marguerite de Navarre and the Evangelical Narrative
Chapter Two: Evangelical Dimensions in Decorative Arts: Emblems, Earthly Objects, and the Economy of Transcendence
Chapter Three: A New Medium for a New Message: Evangelicals and
Decorative Arts
Chapter Four: Of Tableware, Chalices, and Axeheads: The Evangelical Narrative and Transitory Treasures
Chapter Five: The Evangelical Narrative: Des Périers, Du Fail, and Yver
Chapter Six: Earthly Treasures: Marguerite’s Mondain Monstrances
Chapter Seven: Costuming the Christiform Text; or, L’habit ne fait pas le moine
Chapter Eight: Interior Decoration and External Trappings: Space for the Spirit
Conclusion: From Self to Soul: Treasures of the Heart
Notes
Bibliography
Index