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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Early Modern Medicine and the Querelle des Femmes
1. Love or Seduction? Christine de Pizan’s Legacy from the Querelle de la Rose to the Querelle des Femmes
2. From Physical to Spiritual Love: Molinet’s Romant de la rose moralisé (1500) and the Querelle des Femmes
3. Platonic Love, Marriage, and Infertility in Symphorien Champier’s Nef des princes (1502) and Nef des dames (1503)
4. Love and Death in Lemaire’s Couronne Margaritique and the Trois contes de Cupido et d’Atropos: Excessive Grief and the Great Pox
5. Fatal Lovesickness in Marguerite de Navarre’s Quatre dames et quatre gentilzhommes and the Heptaméron
Conclusion: From Courtly Love to Fatal Lovesickness
Appendix 1: Works in the Querelle de la Rose and the Querelle des Femmes (1240–1673)
Appendix 2: Major Early Modern Medical Authorities, Translators, and Commentators
Notes
Bibliography
Index