Lynda WARNER
The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France, Print, Rhetoric, and Law
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Ashgate, mars 2011, 278 p., ISBN: 978-1-4094-1246-5, Price: £65.00, Website price: £58.50

Contents:
Introduction; Booksellers and the market to the 1550s; The dignity and misery of man … and of woman; The Querelle des femmes; The dialogue: beyond dignity and misery, beyond the Querelle des femmes; Diversity, citation and the invention of the essay; Books in the Palais de Justice and their readers in the late 1500s to early 1600s; Rhetoric, print and lawyers’ pleadings in the Parlement de Paris; Conclusion; Bibliography’ Index.
About the Author: Lyndan Warner, an Associate Professor of History, obtained her doctorate from the University of Cambridge and since 1998 has worked at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Reviews: ’This is an exciting new interpretation of the meanings of gender in Renaissance culture. The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France offers a detailed and complex reading of the widely known and culturally significant querelle des femmes and dignity of man and woman debates as deeply intertwined rhetorical exercises, tracing their evolution and influences from legal discourse, humanist modes of thought and expression, and the print trades, as well as emphasising the implications for these in return. Warner’s deep analytical engagement with diverse sources such as literary works, legal case histories, legal discourse and training, book and print history as well as humanist educational practices is impressive indeed.’ Susan Broomhall, The University of Western Australia, Australia
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