Awards
- Winner of Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Book Award 2024 (UK)
Overview
First detailed reconstruction of Anne de Graville's library, establishing her as one of the most well-read and erudite poets of the period. In the 1520s, the French noblewoman Anne de Graville composed two poetic works, based on older, canonical, male-authored texts: Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida and Alain Chartier's Belle dame sans mercy. The first, the Beau roman, she offered to Claude, queen of France and wife of Francis I, and the second, the Rondeaux, to the king's mother, Louise of Savoy. With the pro-feminine spin of her rewritings, Anne developed the legacy of another woman writer from 100 years earlier, Christine de Pizan, by entering the on-going debate known as the querelle des femmes. Like Christine, Anne sought to redress the negative view of women found in much contemporary popular literature and to offer role models for both men and women at the court of Francis I. This book is the first detailed reconstruction and interpretation of Anne's library and her collecting practice, showing how they relate to her own writings and her literary milieu. It also teases out her links to other women writers of the time interested in the querelle, such as Catherine d'Amboise and Margaret of Navarre. Paying close attention to literary, manuscript, and artistic sources, it establishes Anne's reputation as one of the most erudite poets of the period, and one keenly attuned to the position of women in society as well as to the political sensitivities of the French court.
Full Product Details
Author: Elizabeth L'Estrange
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: D.S. Brewer
Weight: 0.835kg
ISBN: 9781843846864
ISBN 10: 1843846861
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 11 April 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: French
Reviews
Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France combines meticulous archival and bibliographical research with innovative literary analysis. This lavishly illustrated and well-written book offers a fascinating account of the concerns animating one woman's complex involvement in the world of books. * SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY MODERN WOMEN & GENDER *
Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France combines meticulous archival and bibliographical research with innovative literary analysis. This lavishly illustrated and well-written book offers a fascinating account of the concerns animating one woman's complex involvement in the world of books. * SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF EARLY MODERN WOMEN & GENDER * This beautiful and richly illustrated book edited by Gallica will greatly interest art historians, as well as specialists of Early Modern book history and literature, and scholars of gender studies. * STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING (SMART) * Elizabeth L'Estrange presents the first full-length study of Anne de Graville's considerable influence as a major contributor to early 16th c. French culture, providing valuable revisions of previous scholarship. Meticulously drawn from archival and codicological sources as well as past and more recent research, the thoroughly researched details about Anne's biography, the contextualization of her cultural and political associations, and the comprehensive analyses of Graville's library, her own writings and related ms. images are impressively complemented by the 57 beautifully reproduced illustrations that illuminate the discussion. * SCRIPTORIUM *
Author Information
Elizabeth L'Estrange is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham
