Faith Through Voice Prayer Poetry in Gabrielle de Coignard’s Œuvres chrétiennes

Gabrielle de Coignard’s Œuvres chrétiennes (1594) consist of poems Coignard wrote in the context of a religious poetic practice: her writing is a continuation of the act of praying. The poetess uses her voice to pray, but also to address various entities, whether earthly or divine, in an attempt at creating dialogue. Lastly, she uses her voice to invoke tableaux taken from religious texts to display examples of piety to her fellow Christians.