Emily E. Thompson, Introduction
Part I: Putting the Real into Words
Chapter 1. Amy Graves Monroe, "The Memorialist and the Historian: A Tale of Two Storytellers"
Chapter 2. Kathleen Loysen, "'Ceste histoire veritable': Women's Narrative and Truth-Telling in the Comptes amoureux and the Angoisses douleureuses"
Chapter 3. Marian Rothstein, "The Queen's Quandary: Storytelling in Jeanne d'Albret's Ample Déclaration"
Chapter 4. David LaGuardia, "Telling the True and the Real in the Canards Sanglants"
Part II: Playing with Expectations
Chapter 5. Colette H. Winn, "Urania in Physician's Robes or Poetry in the Service of Medicine: Girolamo Fracastoro, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus (1530)"
Chapter 6. JoAnn DellaNeva, "Storytelling at the Crossroads of Diplomacy, History, and Poetry: 'The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn, Queen of England,' by Lancelot de Carle"
Chapter 7. Emily E. Thompson, "In Defense of Stories: Henri Estienne Reclaims the Story Collection for a New Readership"
Chapter 8. Dora E. Polachek, "Recasting the Heptaméron Novellas in Brantôme's Vie des dames galantes"
Part III: Repurposing Stories through Shifting Forms
Chapter 9. Cathy Yandell, "Sex, Salvation, Extermination: Contrafacta and the French Wars of Religion"
Chapter 10. Sheila ffolliott, "Storytelling in Tapestry: Examples for a French Queen"
Chapter 11. Phillip John Usher, "The Night before Geology: Fossil Stories from Early Modern France"
Works Cited
About the Contributors
