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List of Figures, Notes on Contributors Susan Broomhall, In the Orbit of the King: Women, Power and Authority at the French Court, 1483-1563 I. CONCEPTUALIZING AND PRACTISING FEMALE POWER 1. Aubrâee David-Chapy The Political, Symbolic and Courtly Power of Anne de France and Louise de Savoie: From the Genesis to the Glory of Female Regency 2. Tracy Adams Anne de France and Gift-Giving: The Exercise of Power 3. Laure Fagnart and Mary Beth Winn Louise de Savoie: The King's Mother, Alter Rex II. CENTRES AND PERIPHERIES OF POWER 4. Erin A. Sadlack Literary Lessons in Queenship and Power: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Authority of the Ambassador-Queen 5. Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier Claude de France and the Spaces of Agency of a Marginalized Queen 6. Lisa Mansfield Portraits of Eleanor of Austria: From Invisible to Inimitable French Queen Consort III. THE POWER OF CREATIVE VOICES 7. Cynthia J. Brown Family Female Networking in Early Sixteenth-Century France: The Power of Text and Image 8. Mawy Bouchard The Power of Reputation and Skills according to Anne de Graville: The Rondeaux and the Denunciation of Slander 9. Jonathan A. Reid Imagination and Influence: The Creative Powers of Marguerite de Navarre at Work at Court and in the World 10. Pollie Bromilow Power through Print: The Works of Hâelisenne de Crenne IV. ECONOMIES OF POWER AND EMOTIONS 11. David Potter The Life and After-Life of a Royal Mistress: Anne de Pisseleu, Duchess of Etampes 12. Susan Broomhall The King and I: Rhetorics of Power in the Letters of Diane de Poitiers 13. Denis Crouzet Catherine de Mâedicis Tested by the Virtue of Charity (1533-1559): Discourse and Metadiscours