Episode 196 – Anne de Graville and Women’s Literary Networks in Early Modern France with Dr Elizabeth L’Estrange

Guest Bio

Elizabeth L’Estrange was born in London and studied for a BA (English Language and Literature), an MA (Medieval Studies) and a PhD (Art History) at the University of Leeds. Her first book, Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages, was published in 2008 and is an interdisciplinary study of images of maternity in books of hours and their interpretation by aristocratic viewers. She has published widely on women patrons and book owners in France in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, especially Anne of France and Anne of Brittany. She is currently Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is now preparing an edition-translation of Anne de Graville’s Beau roman and Rondeaux with Joan E. McRae (Middle Tennessee State University).

Twitter and Insta: @drlizlestrange

Tudor Takeaway

Music by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd

If Ye Love Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqt005j1dB0

Mass for 4 voices

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Spem In Alium

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Natalie Grueninger speaks with Dr Elizabeth L’Estrange about Anne de Graville and Women’s Literary Networks in Early Modern France.

Tune in to hear Natalie and Elizabeth discuss:

– Anne de Graville’s family and early life

– The querelle des dames

– Anne de Graville’s poetic works

– Anne the reader and collector

– Anne de Graville’s links to other women writers of the time, including Catherine d’Amboise and Margaret of Navarre.

– The effect Queen Claude’s death had on Anne

– Anne’s library

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