Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in the querelle des femmes.

List of Illustrations List of Tables 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