期刊名称：Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme
印刷版ISSN：0034-429X
出版年度：2002
卷号：38
期号：4
页码：91-111
出版社：Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme
摘要：Written around 1535, Le Mallade bears witness, as V.-L. Saulnier puts it, to Marguerite de Navarre’s effort to reconcile the official Church dogma with the new Evangelical faith following the Affaire des Placards. But in addition to its documentary value for France’s religious history, this play presents a real scientific interest, which has been neglected until now. Specifically, Le Mallade deals with sixteenth-century attitudes towards sickness and health, different types of medical approaches, and various debates which divided the medical circles of the time on such questions as surgery, bloodletting, and human suffering. This article also examines related issues, including remedies, superstitions, the cult of saints, and the relation between science and faith, as well as a woman’s duty to assist her husband and her family members in sickness and health. Marguerite de Navarre’s intention was to show that “God is the true savior of man.” In order to authenticate the medical metaphor familiar to contemporary Christians that conveyed this idea (“ Deus medicus ”) and create a sense of urgency, she represents the daily suffering of a patient and the inefficicacy of the medical care that he receives. As for the figure of the charitable, caring wife, it provided a means by which Marguerite could rehabilitate her own image in the trying times that followed the year 1534.
