Elizabeth L'Estrange is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham

At once a rich trove of carefully curated images from the manuscripts, books, and architectural contexts of Anne de Graville (ca. 1490-1540) and a well researched history of connections illustrating the literary networks of Anne and other noble and royal women of her time, L'Estrange's book provides an excellent foundation for consideration of the spread of Renaissance literary culture in early sixteenth-century France, especially women's place in it.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsA Note on Citations, Translations and TranscriptionsList of Abbreviations Introduction: 'Une femme d'excellence en vertus, ma dame d'Entraigues': Anne de Graville's Life and WorksPart I: Anne de Graville: Reader and CollectorChapter 1: J'en garde un leal: Reconstructing Anne de Graville's LibraryChapter 2: 'A vos yeulx, un peu de recreation': Translation, Translatio Studii and Self-Fashioning in Anne de Graville's Chaldean HistoriesChapter 3: The Rouen Connection: The Puy, Poetry and PetrarchPart II: From Reading to Writing: Anne as AuthorChapter 4: Musas natura, lachrymas fortuna: Anne de Graville, Christine de Pizan and Women's Shaping of the querelle des femmesChapter 5: Love, Amazons and Fortune in the Beau roman for Claude of FranceChapter 6: Debating with 'Maistre Allain': Chartier, Blois and Poetic Form in the Rondeaux for Louise of SavoyConclusion: 'Celle la qui porte le regnon': A Last Word on Anne de GravilleAppendix A: Books Inherited, Acquired, Commissioned or Associated with Anne de GravilleAppendix B: Inventory of the d'Urfé Library at La Bâtie, c. 1780Appendix C: Manuscripts Containing Works by Anne de Graville Bibliography

Elizabeth L'Estrange is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham

At once a rich trove of carefully curated images from the manuscripts, books, and architectural contexts of Anne de Graville (ca. 1490-1540) and a well researched history of connections illustrating the literary networks of Anne and other noble and royal women of her time, L'Estrange's book provides an excellent foundation for consideration of the spread of Renaissance literary culture in early sixteenth-century France, especially women's place in it.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsA Note on Citations, Translations and TranscriptionsList of Abbreviations Introduction: 'Une femme d'excellence en vertus, ma dame d'Entraigues': Anne de Graville's Life and WorksPart I: Anne de Graville: Reader and CollectorChapter 1: J'en garde un leal: Reconstructing Anne de Graville's LibraryChapter 2: 'A vos yeulx, un peu de recreation': Translation, Translatio Studii and Self-Fashioning in Anne de Graville's Chaldean HistoriesChapter 3: The Rouen Connection: The Puy, Poetry and PetrarchPart II: From Reading to Writing: Anne as AuthorChapter 4: Musas natura, lachrymas fortuna: Anne de Graville, Christine de Pizan and Women's Shaping of the querelle des femmesChapter 5: Love, Amazons and Fortune in the Beau roman for Claude of FranceChapter 6: Debating with 'Maistre Allain': Chartier, Blois and Poetic Form in the Rondeaux for Louise of SavoyConclusion: 'Celle la qui porte le regnon': A Last Word on Anne de GravilleAppendix A: Books Inherited, Acquired, Commissioned or Associated with Anne de GravilleAppendix B: Inventory of the d'Urfé Library at La Bâtie, c. 1780Appendix C: Manuscripts Containing Works by Anne de Graville Bibliography

Elizabeth L'Estrange is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham

At once a rich trove of carefully curated images from the manuscripts, books, and architectural contexts of Anne de Graville (ca. 1490-1540) and a well researched history of connections illustrating the literary networks of Anne and other noble and royal women of her time, L'Estrange's book provides an excellent foundation for consideration of the spread of Renaissance literary culture in early sixteenth-century France, especially women's place in it.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsA Note on Citations, Translations and TranscriptionsList of Abbreviations Introduction: 'Une femme d'excellence en vertus, ma dame d'Entraigues': Anne de Graville's Life and WorksPart I: Anne de Graville: Reader and CollectorChapter 1: J'en garde un leal: Reconstructing Anne de Graville's LibraryChapter 2: 'A vos yeulx, un peu de recreation': Translation, Translatio Studii and Self-Fashioning in Anne de Graville's Chaldean HistoriesChapter 3: The Rouen Connection: The Puy, Poetry and PetrarchPart II: From Reading to Writing: Anne as AuthorChapter 4: Musas natura, lachrymas fortuna: Anne de Graville, Christine de Pizan and Women's Shaping of the querelle des femmesChapter 5: Love, Amazons and Fortune in the Beau roman for Claude of FranceChapter 6: Debating with 'Maistre Allain': Chartier, Blois and Poetic Form in the Rondeaux for Louise of SavoyConclusion: 'Celle la qui porte le regnon': A Last Word on Anne de GravilleAppendix A: Books Inherited, Acquired, Commissioned or Associated with Anne de GravilleAppendix B: Inventory of the d'Urfé Library at La Bâtie, c. 1780Appendix C: Manuscripts Containing Works by Anne de Graville Bibliography