List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter One. Rituals of Entry: Women and Books in Performance
Chapter Two. Female Patronage and the Politics of Personification
Allegory
Chapter Three. Women Famous and Infamous: Court Controversies About
Female Virtues
Chapter Four. Famous Women in Mourning: Trials and Tribulations
Chapter Five. Women Mourned
Appendix. Manuscript and Printed Books Associated with Anne of
Brittany
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
In The Queen's Library, Cynthia J. Brown examines the cultural issues surrounding female modes of empowerment and book production in late medieval and early Renaissance France.
Cynthia J. Brown is Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Poets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France.
"The Queen's Library advances new ways of understanding famous
women in politics by examining what they read, and by investigating
the literary, artistic-and ultimately political-means deployed,
consciously or unconsciously, by the makers of the books they
owned."
*François Rigolot, Princeton University*
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