The Visionary QueenThe Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarres status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as a visionary. In her life and writings, the queen of Navarre dissected the injustices that her society and its institutions perpetuated against women. We also see evidence that she used her literary texts, especially the Heptamron, as an exploratory space in which to generate a creative vision for