David P. LaGuardia is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, USA. Cathy Yandell is W. I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of French Literature, Language & Culture, and Director of French and Francophone Studies, at Carleton College, USA.

'Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France offers an excellent selection of essays that will enlighten readers interested in literature, history, religious and cultural studies of the early modern period. Focusing primarily on works composed during and immediately following the Wars of Religion, the authors offer new insights into notions of community and memory that arose in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.' Mary McKinley, University of Virginia, USA

• Part 1 The Nature of Memory: Two queens, a dog, and a purloined letter: on memory as a discursive phenomenon in late Renaissance France. 'M'en souvenant, je m'oblie moymesmes': Delie as Memento Mori. Soundscapes of the Wars of Religion: sensory crisis and the collective memory of violence. Part 2 Re-viewing the Wars of Religion: Communion, Cannibalism, and Testimony: Communities under siege: Lery, famine, and the cannibal within. Fathers and sons: paternity, memory, and community in Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne's Histoire Universelle. Agrippa d'Aubigne's Tragiques as testimony. From communion to communication: the creation of a Reformation public through satire. Part 3 Remembering People and Places: Brantome's Dames illustres: remembering Marguerite de Navarre. How memory constitutes nations in Louis Le Roy's Vicissitude. Montaigne and the will not to forget. Part 4 Memory, Identity, Alterity: Memory and forgetting in Louis Le Roy's presentation of the androgyne Cannibalism and cognition in Jean de Lery's Histoire d'un voyage. The struggle for cultural memory in Ronsard's Discours des miseres de ce temps. Witchcraft and subjectivity: the trial of the witches of Marlou (1582-83).

David P. LaGuardia is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, USA. Cathy Yandell is W. I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of French Literature, Language & Culture, and Director of French and Francophone Studies, at Carleton College, USA.

'Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France offers an excellent selection of essays that will enlighten readers interested in literature, history, religious and cultural studies of the early modern period. Focusing primarily on works composed during and immediately following the Wars of Religion, the authors offer new insights into notions of community and memory that arose in the wake of the Protestant Reformation.' Mary McKinley, University of Virginia, USA

• Part 1 The Nature of Memory: Two queens, a dog, and a purloined letter: on memory as a discursive phenomenon in late Renaissance France. 'M'en souvenant, je m'oblie moymesmes': Delie as Memento Mori. Soundscapes of the Wars of Religion: sensory crisis and the collective memory of violence. Part 2 Re-viewing the Wars of Religion: Communion, Cannibalism, and Testimony: Communities under siege: Lery, famine, and the cannibal within. Fathers and sons: paternity, memory, and community in Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne's Histoire Universelle. Agrippa d'Aubigne's Tragiques as testimony. From communion to communication: the creation of a Reformation public through satire. Part 3 Remembering People and Places: Brantome's Dames illustres: remembering Marguerite de Navarre. How memory constitutes nations in Louis Le Roy's Vicissitude. Montaigne and the will not to forget. Part 4 Memory, Identity, Alterity: Memory and forgetting in Louis Le Roy's presentation of the androgyne Cannibalism and cognition in Jean de Lery's Histoire d'un voyage. The struggle for cultural memory in Ronsard's Discours des miseres de ce temps. Witchcraft and subjectivity: the trial of the witches of Marlou (1582-83).