Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

A Note on Citations, Translations and Transcriptions

pp xv-xvi

List of Abbreviations

pp xvii-xvii

Map

pp xviii-xviii

Introduction: ‘Une femme d’excellence en vertus, ma dame d’Entraigues’: Anne de Graville’s Life and Works

pp 1-22

PART I - ANNE DE GRAVILLE: READER AND COLLECTOR

pp 23-24

1 - J’en garde un leal: Reconstructing Anne de Graville’s Library

pp 25-56

2 - ‘A vos yeulx, un peu de recreation’: Translation, Translatio Studii and Self-Fashioning in Anne de Graville’s Chaldean Histories

pp 57-75

3 - The Rouen Connection: The Puy, Poetry and Petrarch

pp 76-116

PART II - FROM READING TO WRITING: ANNE AS AUTHOR

pp 117-118

4 - Musas natura, lachrymas fortuna: Anne de Graville, Christine de Pizan and Women’s Shaping of the querelle des femmes

pp 119-159

5 - Love, Amazons and Fortune in the Beau roman for Claude of France

pp 160-232

6 - Debating with ‘Maistre Allain’: Chartier, Blois and Poetic Form in the Rondeaux for Louise of Savoy

pp 233-286

Conclusion: ‘Celle la qui porte le regnon’: A Last Word on Anne de Graville

pp 287-292

Appendix A - Books Inherited, Acquired, Commissioned by or Associated with Anne de Graville

pp 293-303

Appendix B - Inventory of the d’Urfé Library at La Bâtie, c. 1780

pp 304-313

Appendix C - Manuscripts Containing Works by Anne de Graville

pp 314-316

Bibliography

pp 317-342

Index

pp 343-351

Gallica

pp 352-353