Lettering the self in medieval and early modern France /
[Book]
Katherine Kong
Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer,
2010
275 pages ;
25 cm
Gallica,
v. 17
1749-091X ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-267) and index
Love letters in the monastery : ambiguous lessons and epistolary play in the verses of Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance of Algiers -- Writing the subjunctive into the indicative : commanding performances in the letters of Abelard and Heloise -- Virilis Femina : Christine de Pizan and the gender of letters -- The pursuit of spiritual quietude in the correspondence of Marguerite de Navarre and Guillaume Briçonnet -- The Foedus Amicitae of Etienne de la Boétie and Michel de Montaigne
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French letters-- History and criticism
Latin letters, Medieval and modern-- France-- History and criticism