Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Putting the Real into Words
5. 1 The Memorialist and the Historian: A Tale of Two Storytellers 17
6. 2 “Ceste histoire veritable”: Women’s Narrative and Truth-Telling in the Comptes amoureux and the Angoisses douloureuses 32
7. 3 The Queen’s Quandary: Storytelling in Jeanne d’Albret’s Ample Déclaration 57
8. 4 Telling the True and the Real in the Canards Sanglants 74
9. Part II Playing with Expectations
10. 5 Urania in Physician’s Robes, or Poetry in the Service of Medicine: Girolamo Fracastoro, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (1530) 99
11. 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 125
12. 7 In Defense of Stories: Henri Estienne Reclaims the Story Collection for a New Readership 152
13. 8 Recasting the Heptaméron Novellas in Brantôme’s Vie des dames galantes 170
14. Part III Repurposing Stories through Shifting Forms
15. 9 Sex, Salvation, Extermination: Contrafacta and the French Wars of Religion 195
16. 10 Storytelling in Tapestry: Examples for a French Queen 218
17. 11 The Night before Geology: Fossil Stories from Early Modern France 240
18. Contributors 265
19. Index 271