List of Illustrations Preface Chronology Map Genealogy 1. Mother of the Renaissance 2. Education of a Lady (1492-1515) 3. Queen in All but Name (1515-1520) 4. The Bishop of Meaux (1521-1524) 5. Envoy Extraordinary (1524-1526) 6. Queen of Navarre (1526-1533) 7. Politics and Religion (1534-1539) 8. Courtly Love-and Marriage (1539-1543) 9. And Then There Was One (1543-1547) 10. Pearls from the Pearl of Princesses (1547-1549) Notes References Index
Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, this definitive biography by two major scholars of the early modern period provides a comprehensive, personalized and lively account of the life and times of the French Renaissance's most important femaleprose writer. -- Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Queer/Early/Modern Scholarly and lively, this book-the first of its kind in English-brings to life the career of one of the most brilliant women of her age through the evidence of her own letters, poems, and prose. -- Robert Knecht, University of Birmingham, author of The Valois: Kings of France 1328-1589
Patricia F. Cholakian was professor emerita at Hamilton College. She was the author of Rape and Writing in the Hemptameron of Marguerite de Navarre and Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France. Rouben C. Cholakian is professor emeritus at Hamilton College and the author of The Bayeux Tapestry and the Ethos of War and The Troubadour Lyric: A Psychocritical Reading.
"A well-written, engrossing biography, a welcome addition to any medievalist's library" -- Mihaela Luiza Florescu, Comitatus
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