Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

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.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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*