Gender, Writing, and Performance

• Pieces together a fascinating and complex picture of what was at stake when a male author wrote in defence of women
• All quotations are translated
• Fills an important gap in one of the key literary and intellectual debates of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
• Covers the period 1440 to 1538, a key transition period from manuscript to print
• Examines the production and illustration of a major work, Le Champion des dames, to explore the contemporary popularity of such texts over time

Readership: Medieval and Early Modern French literary scholars; pre-Modern literary scholars (any European vernacular, especially English) interested in gender; historians of the book

Helen J. Swift, University (CUF) Lecturer in Medieval French at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Medieval French at St Hilda's College, Oxford

"one of the most well-articulated and thoughtfully conceived contributions to scholarship in this field" - Cynthia J. Brown, Medium Aevum

Introduction
1: Haunting Text and Paratext: Performing Intertextuality in querelle Debates
2: Performing Conflict: The Drama of Debate
3: Representing Women in the querelle des femmes
Conclusion: A New Shelf-Life?
Appendix 1: Chronologies of querelle des femmes Texts;
Appendix 2: Lists of Manuscripts, Incunables, and Early Printed Editions
List of Works cited