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Written on the Leaves: Rabelais and the Sibylline Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Florence M. Weinberg
Florence M. Weinberg*
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Trinity University
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The episode of the Sibylle de Panzoust, most often brushed aside as merely farcical, scatological and obscene, remaiijs to be examined seriously and at length. My reading of the sibylline episode will begin by placing the Sibylle in the context of Rabelais' general treatment of women; I shall attempt to determine her place among all the other means of divining the future; further, I shall examine the attitudes of the Pantagruelistes (Epistémon, Pantagruel, Panurge) towards her before the consultation, and, of course, thoroughly investigate the consultation itself.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 709 - 730
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1990

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