Helen Solterer is Associate Professor of French at Duke University.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 PROFILES IN MASTERY1 Ovidian and Aristotelian Figures 2 The Trials of Discipleship: Le Roman de la poire and Le Dit de la pan there d' amours 3 The Master at Work: Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour PART 2 PROLIFERATING RESPONSES4 Contrary to What Is Said: The Response au Bestiaire d'amour and the Case for a Woman's Response 5 Defamation and the Livre de leesce:The Problem of a Sycophantic Response 6 Christine's Way: The Querelle du Roman de la rose and the Ethics of a Political Response 7 A Libelous Affair: The Querelle de la Belle Dame sans merci and the Prospects for a Legal Response Coda: Clotilde de Surville and the Latter-Day History of the Woman's Response Notes Bibliography Index