Lettering the self in medieval and early modern France
By: Katherine Kong
Series: Gallica -- v. 17; Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) -- v. 17.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781843842316
Subjects: Self in literature; Medieval and modern Latin letters; French letters; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Love letters in the monastery : ambiguous lessons and epistolary play in the verses of Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance of Algiers; title: Writing the subjunctive into the indicative : commanding performances in the letters of Abelard and Heloise; title: Virilis Femina : Christine de Pizan and the gender of letters; title: The pursuit of spiritual quietude in the correspondence of Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume Briçonnet; title: The Foedus Amicitae of Etienne de la Boétie and Michel de Montaigne.