IN THIS ISSUE
Introduction: Women and Community in Early Modern Europe
by Laurie Postlewate
About this Issue
by Tami Navarro
PART 1
Imagining Community
Building Women’s Community through Patronage in Late Fifteenth-Century Burgundy
by Francesca Canadé Sautman
By the Grace of God: Women’s Agency in the Rhetoric of Katharina Schütz Zell and Martin Luther
by Sini Mikkola
Il Dialogo de’ giuochi by Girolamo Bargagli and the Women of Siena: Culture, Independence, and Politics
by Elena Brizio
Conversation as Child’s Play: The Performances of Madame de Maintenon’s Conversations at the Royale Maison de Saint-Louis
by Mallika Lecoeur
PART 2
Enlightened Collaboration
A Distinguished and Anonymous Female Presence: Louise d’Épinay and the Correspondance littéraire’s Imagined Community
by Mélinda Caron
A Salon Hostess’s Entry into the Literary Field: Fanny de Beauharnais and the Members of the School of Dorat (~1770–80)
by Chanel de Halleux
Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux d’Arconville and Community during the French Enlightenment
by Leigh Whaley