Martin Thierry, an intellectuel humanist from Beauvais during the Renaissance.

2022

Our thesis aims to make known Martin Thierry, a forgotten writer from Beauvais during the Renaissance, his life, his environment, his work, his ideas and his culture.This lawyer, a professor of civil law, devotes himself to writing, exclusively in Latin, and uses his immense culture, both secular and religious, to celebrate certain local figures or those close to the king, such as Bernardin de Valdrey and Anne de Montmorency, or to evoke, in a commited manner, certain major subjects that occupied many minds at the time, such as the question of peace between Spain and France, the Protestant reform, and the legitimacy and sanctity of the Church.In a collection of poems published in 1532, he p…