Subject/Object and Beyond

Nancy M. Frelick is associate professor of French and Renaissance Studies at the University of British Columbia. Edith J. Benkov is professor emerita of French and European Studies at San Diego State University.

“These essays give a sense of the really broad and incredibly varied swath of studies in early modern literature and culture that Colette Winn has influenced and helped to cultivate. The field of studying early modern women/writers is an incredibly vibrant, rich, and complex one, with really exciting things happening on many fronts."

• Illustrations viiContributors ixPréfaceFrançois Rouget xviiColette H. Winn Publications 1IntroductionNancy M. Frelick, Edith Benkov 15PART ONETranslating “damoiselline facherie”: Claude Scève, Claude Nourry,and Urbain le mescongneu filz de l’Empereur Federic BarberousseEmily E. Thompson 25Hélisenne de Crenne’s “Roman de Dido”Marian Rothstein 49« Car ce te sera honte de quereler avec une femme » :Hélisenne de Crenne, Louise Labé et la satire au fémininBernd Renner 71Lost in the Labérynthe: Mythologizing Louise Labé and the École lyonnaiseNancy M. Frelick 91PART TWOFrom Trickery to Triumph: Female Alliances and the Paths to Powerin Heptaméron 4 and 58Dora E. Polachek 127Femmes, bagues et anneaux dans l’Heptaméron : le labyrintherhétorique du parcours amoureuxBrigitte Roussel 149Cross-Dressed Monks in Saints’ Lives and Their Parodies:A Source for Heptaméron 31Scott Francis 173Chasteté et honneur des veuves de l’Heptaméron de Margueritede NavarreCynthia Skenazi 195Gossip, Commérage, and Caquets: Women’s Words in Early Modern FranceKathleen M. Llewellyn 213PART THREEA Huguenot Noblewoman’s Poetry Collection:The Album Belonging to Louise de Coligny (1555–1620)Jane Couchman 237The Poetics of a Poetry AlbumStephen Murphy 263Music for Women and Fleas: The Example of Catherine Des RochesKendall Tarte 287Souvenir anatomique d’une femme : l’autopsie en vers de Madamede MercoeurHélène Martin 309PART FOURLa tragicomédie du suicide couplé, ou : lien et devoir conjugal selon « De trois bonnes femmes » (Montaigne, Essais, II, 35)Corinne Noirot 337“Le mestier des femmes”: Queens, Nuns, Peacemaking, and theWars of ReligionEdith Benkov 361Reading the Bodies of Witches: The Case of Jeanne des Anges(1632–1637)Cathy Yandell 381“[Dieu] se servit de Jeanne d’Arc”: The Textual Public Identity and Political Agency of Mining Engineer Martine de Bertereau, Baronne de Beausoleil (c. 1584–c. 1643)Anne R. Larsen 403