Organizers: Anne Larsen and Diana RobinWe would like to organize a panel on « Revisiting Early Modern Salons. »The place of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century salons and salon sociabilité in the production of culture has been a topic of renewed interest for literary historians for well over a decade. As we and other scholars have begun to take into consideration women’s leadership and patronage in such contexts, in Italy, France, England, and Spain, the notions about what constitutes women’s empowerment regarding the production of literary culture, especially, but also their...

Elizabeth Cohen would love to hear from others who would like to offer papers on girls and young women as yet unmarried to God or man — on their activities, their letters and other expressions, their aspirations, their senses of constraint or autonomy, their collaboration with other family members, female and male, and whatever else you may have discovered. She herself will propose a paper on the seduction of young women as these culpable efforts turn up in the criminal courts of Rome. Please respond at her personal email with a paper title, 150-word abstract and a one-page CV:...

Marie de Bourgogne (1457?1482), fille de Charles le Téméraire et héritière des États de ce dernier, a été jusqu’ici peu étudiée par les spécialistes du XVe siècle. Malgré une exposition, tenue à Beaune entre novembre 2000 et février 2001 (Bruges à Beaune. Marie, l’héritage de Bourgogne), ainsi que plusieurs biographies, souvent inégales, son règne bref « et pourtant déterminant pour l’histoire européenne » demeure éclipsé par la magnificence de ceux de son père Charles le Téméraire, de son époux Maximilien de Habsbourg et de ses fils et petits-fils, Philippe le Beau et...