Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France
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Author_Lyndan Warner
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Chambre Des Comptes
Charles De Bovelles
Christine De Pisan
Claude Gruget
De Crenne
De Tournes
denis
Denis Janot
des
Du Bartas
early modern legal history
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family law Renaissance
gender debates France
Gilles Corrozet
Henri III
humanist rhetoric
inheritance disputes
Innocent III
janot
jean
Jean De Tournes
justice
Le Maistre
Montaigne's Essais
Montaigne’s Essais
neuve
palais
Palais De Justice
Parlement De Paris
printed gender polemics 16th century
probate inventories research
querelle
Recherches De La France
Roman De La Rose
rue
Rue Neuve
Sieur De La
Sixteenth Century Dialogues
tournes
Utramque Partem
Vincent Sertenas
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409412465
- Weight: 657g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates in the 1500s over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the dignity and misery of man. Analysing these writings side by side, Lyndan Warner reveals the extent to which Renaissance authors borrowed commonplaces from both traditions as they praised or blamed man or woman and habitually considered opposite and contrary points of view. In the law courts reflections on the virtues and vices of man and woman had a practical application-to win cases-and as Warner demonstrates, Parisian lawyers employed this developing rhetoric in family disputes over inheritance and marriage, and amplified it in the published versions of their pleadings. Tracing these ideas and modes of thinking from the writer's quill to the workshops and boutiques of printers and booksellers, Warner uses probate inventories to follow the books to the households of their potential male and female readers. Warner reveals the shifts in printed discussions of human nature from the 1500s to the early 1600s and shows how booksellers adapted the ways they marketed and sold new genres such as essays and lawyers' pleadings.
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.
