Women And The Book Trade In Sixteenth Century France

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351872232

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Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France by Susan Broomhall Pdf

Focusing on the vastly understudied area of how women participated in the book trades, not just as authors, but also as patrons, copyists, illuminators, publishers, editors and readers, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France foregrounds contributions made by women during a period of profound transformation in the modes and understanding of publication. Broomhall asks whether women's experiences as authors changed when manuscript circulation gave way to the printed book as a standard form of publication. Innovatively, she broadens the concept of publication to include methods of scribal publication, through the circulation and presentation of manuscripts, and expands notions of authorship to incorporate a wide sample group of female writers and publishing experiences. She challenges the existing view that manuscript offered a "safe" means of semi-public exposure for female authors and explores its continuing presence after the introduction of print. The study introduces a wide and rich range of unexamined sources on early modern women, using an extensive range of manuscripts and the entire corpus of women's printed texts in sixteenth-century France. Most of the original texts, uncovered during the author's own extensive archival and bibliographical research, have never been re-published in modern French. Most of the citations from them are here translated into English for the first time. The work presents the only checklist of all known women's writings in printed texts, from prefaces and laudatory verse to editions of prose and poetry, between 1488 and 1599. Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France constitutes the most comprehensive assessment of women's contribution to contemporary publishing yet available. Broomhall's innovative approach and her conclusions have relevance not only for book historians and French historians, but for a broad range of scholars who work with other European literatures and histories, as well as women's studies.

Author : S. Broomhall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230501508

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Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France by S. Broomhall Pdf

This work considers how Frenchwomen participated in Christian religious practice during the sixteenth century, with their words and their actions. Using extensive original and archival sources, it provides a comprehensive study of how women contributed to institutional, theological, devotional and political religious matters. Challenging the view of religious reforms and ideas imposed by male authorities upon women, this study argues instead that women, Catholic and Calvinist, lay and monastic, were deeply involved in the culture, meanings and development of contemporary religious practices.

Author : Pollie Bromilow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123325875

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Models of Women in Sixteenth-century French Literature by Pollie Bromilow Pdf

This book offers a feminist critique of the so-called crisis of exemplarity in late Renaissance texts by comparing and contrasting examples proposed to female readers in two collections of sixteenth-century French short stories, Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques and Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron. The author proposes that female exemplarity has its own poetics and cannot be considered simply as identical or symmetrical to male exemplarity. What emerges in the course of the study is an understanding of the different ways in which exemplarity enters the life of the female reader: through history, truth, invention, memory and strangeness.

Author : Malcolm Walsby
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 911 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004324145

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Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600 by Malcolm Walsby Pdf

Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France presents short biographies for over 2700 booksellers, printers and bookbinders active outside Paris and Lyon in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Author : Janine M. Lanza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317131533

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From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris by Janine M. Lanza Pdf

Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as their day-to-day experiences. Janine Lanza examines widows in early modern Paris at every social and economic level, beginning with the late sixteenth century when changes in royal law curtailed the movement of property within families up to the time of the French Revolution. The glimpses she gives us of widows running businesses, debating remarriage, and negotiating marriage contracts offer precious insights into the daily lives of women in this period. Lanza shows that understanding widows dramatically alters our understanding of gender, not only in terms of how it was lived in this period but also how historians can use this idea as a category of analysis. Her study also engages the historiographical issue of business and entrepreneurship, particularly women's participation in the world of work; and explicitly examines the place of the law in the lived experience of the early modern period. How did widowed women use their newly acquired legal emancipation? How did they handle their emotional loss? How did their roles in their families and their communities change? How did they remain financially solvent without a man in the house? How did they make decisions that had always been made by the men around them? These questions all touch upon the experience of widows and on the ways women related to prevalent structures and ideologies in this society. Lanza's study of these women, the ways they were represented and how they experienced their widowhood, challenges many historical assumptions about women and their roles with respect to the law, the family, and economic activity.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ceremonial exchange
ISBN : 0199242887

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The Gift in Sixteenth-century France by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of human relations--or do they lose their power and importance once the market takes hold and puts a price on every exchange? These questions are central to our sense of social relations past and present, and they are at the heart of this book by one of our most intersting and renowned historians.

Author : Ingrid Åkerlund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : France
ISBN : 088946572X

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Sixteenth Century French Women Writers by Ingrid Åkerlund Pdf

Author : Malcolm Quainton
Publisher : Durham Modern Languages
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0907310699

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Writers in Conflict in Sixteenth-century France by Malcolm Quainton Pdf

Text in English with some contributions in French.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 067495520X

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Women on the Margins by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.

Author : Anne R. Larsen,Diana Robin,Carole Levin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851097777

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Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance by Anne R. Larsen,Diana Robin,Carole Levin Pdf

This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the outstanding and often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England is the first first comprehensive reference devoted exclusively to the contributions of women to European culture in the period between 1350 and 1700. Focusing principally on early modern women in England, France, and Italy, it offers over 135 biographies of the extraordinary women of those times. Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance provides vivid portraits of well known women such as Catherine of Siena, Joan of Arc, Mary Queen of Scots, and Christine de Pizan. Also included are less familiar but equally important women like Elena Lucrezia Cornaro, the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate; the renowned Renaissance painter Artemisia Gentileschi; and the acclaimed author of medical textbooks and midwife to a French queen, Louise Boursier. Based on the latest research and enhanced with thematic essays, this groundbreaking work casts our understanding of women's lives and roles in Renaissance history and culture in a provocative new light.

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9048533406

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Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 by Susan Broomhall Pdf

Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563 explores the ways in which a range of women - as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage - wielded power in order to advance individual, familial, and factional agendas at the early sixteenth-century French court. Spring-boarding from the burgeoning scholarship of gender, the political, and power in early modern Europe, the collection provides a perspective from the French court, from the reigns of Charles VIII to Henri II, a time when the French court was a renowned center of culture and at which women played important roles. Crossdisciplinary in its perspectives, these essays by historians, art and literary scholars investigate the dynamic operations of gendered power in political acts, recognized status as queens and regents, ritualized behaviors such as gift-giving, educational coteries, and through social networking, literary and artistic patronage, female authorship, and epistolary strategies. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Author : JoniM. Hand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351536530

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"Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350?550 " by JoniM. Hand Pdf

Author Joni M. Hand sheds light on the reasons women of the Valois courts from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century commissioned devotional manuscripts. Visually interpreting the non-text elements-portraits, coats of arms, and marginalia-as well as the texts, Hand explores how the manuscripts were used to express the women?s religious, political, and/or genealogical concerns. This study is arranged thematically according to the method in which the owner is represented. Recognizing the considerable influence these women had on the appearance of their books, Hand interrogates how the manuscripts became a means of self-expression beyond the realm of devotional practice. She reveals how noblewomen used their private devotional manuscripts as vehicles for self-definition, to reflect familial, political, and social concerns, and to preserve the devotional and cultural traditions of their families. Drawing on documentation of women?s book collections that has been buried within the inventories of their fathers, husbands, or sons, Hand explores how these women contributed to the cultural and spiritual character of the courts, and played an integral role in the formation and evolution of the royal libraries in Northern Europe.

Author : Lyndan Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317028000

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The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France by Lyndan Warner Pdf

The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the dignity and misery of man. Analysing these writings side by side, Lyndan Warner reveals the extent to which Renaissance authors borrowed commonplaces from both traditions as they praised or blamed man or woman and habitually considered opposite and contrary points of view. In the law courts reflections on the virtues and vices of man and woman had a practical application-to win cases-and as Warner demonstrates, Parisian lawyers employed this developing rhetoric in family disputes over inheritance and marriage, and amplified it in the published versions of their pleadings. Tracing these ideas and modes of thinking from the writer's quill to the workshops and boutiques of printers and booksellers, Warner uses probate inventories to follow the books to the households of their potential male and female readers. Warner reveals the shifts in printed discussions of human nature from the 1500s to the early 1600s and shows how booksellers adapted the ways they marketed and sold new genres such as essays and lawyers' pleadings.

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : France
ISBN : 0719062861

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Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France by Susan Broomhall Pdf

This text combines detailed research with a clear presentation of the existing literature of women's medical work, making it useful to students of gender and medical history.

Author : Julie D. Campbell,Anne R. Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351942379

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Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters by Julie D. Campbell,Anne R. Larsen Pdf

An important contribution to growing scholarship on women's participation in literary cultures, this essay collection concentrates on cross-national communities of letters to offer a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing. The essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures from several countries, ranging from Italy and France to the Low Countries and England. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers; the collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and exploring familial, political, and religious communities. Taken together, these essays offer fresh ways of reading early modern women's writing that consider such issues as the changing cultural geographies of the early modern world, women's bilingualism and multilingualism, and women's sense of identity mediated by local, regional, national, and transnational affiliations and conflicts.