Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on the Text; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Booksellers and the Market to the 1550s; 3 The Dignity and Misery of Man ... and of Woman; 4 The Querelle des femmes; 5 The Dialogue: Beyond Dignity and Misery, Beyond the Querelle des femmes; 6 Diversity, Citation and the Invention of the Essay; 7 Books in the Palais de Justice and their Readers in the Late 1500s to Early 1600s; 8 Rhetoric, Print and Lawyers' Pleadings in the Parlement de Paris; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the dignity and misery of man, revealing the striking overlap between them as they evolved into the 1600s. Drawing on probate inventories, court registers and published lawyers' pleadings, Lyndan Warner traces these intertwined ideas from author to bookseller to reader
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-256) and index
