Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Putting the Real into Words
1. The Memorialist and the Historian: A Tale of Two Storytellers
2. "Ceste histoire veritable": Women's Narrative and Truth-Telling in the Comptes amoureux and the Angoisses douloureuses
3. The Queen's Quandary: Storytelling in Jeanne d'Albret's Ample Déclaration
4. Telling the True and the Real in the Canards Sanglants
Part II. Playing with Expectations
5. Urania in Physician's Robes, or Poetry in the Service of Medicine: Girolamo Fracastoro, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (1530)
6. Storytelling at the Crossroads of Diplomacy, History, and Poetry: "The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England," by Lancelot de Carle
7. In Defense of Stories: Henri Estienne Reclaims the Story Collection for a New Readership
8. Recasting the Heptaméron Novellas in Brantôme's Vie des dames galantes
Part III. Repurposing Stories through Shifting Forms
9. Sex, Salvation, Extermination: Contrafacta and the French Wars of Religion
10. Storytelling in Tapestry: Examples for a French Queen
11. The Night before Geology: Fossil Stories from Early Modern France
Contributors
Index.