Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Profiles in mastery: Ovidian and Aristotelian figures
  • The trials of discipleship: Le Roman de la poire and Le Dit de la panthère d'amours
  • The master at work: Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour
  • pt. 2. Proliferating responses: Contrary to what is said: The Response au Bestiaire d'amour and the case for a woman's response
  • Defamation and the Livre de leesce: the problem of a sycophantic response
  • Christine's way: The Querelle du Roman de la rose and the ethics of political response
  • The libelous affair: The Querelle del la Belle Dame sans merci and the prospects for a legal response
  • Coda: Clotilde de Surville and the latter-day history of the woman's response.