THE DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH & ITALIAN PRESENTS Cynthia Brown University of California, Santa Barbara Illuminating Family Female Networks in Tuesday, Nov. 12 Late Medieval and Early Modern France: 5:30 pm Books as Cultural Sites of Investigation Global & International Studies Building 1060 About the talk: This lecture will examine books chosen by women for other women and the manner in which the shifting dynamics of a selected number of codices, as seen Sponsors: through the paratext and its relationship with the text, The Mary-Margaret documents the workings of female networks in two royal families of the period. The talk will concentrate on the Barr Koon Fund of the female lineage generated by Charlotte de Savoie (1461-83), Department of French queen of Louis XI, including her daughter Anne de & Italian and the France (1461-1522), duchess of Bourbon, and granddaughter Suzanne de Bourbon (1491-1521). The talk Medieval Studies will also investigate female networking in the family of Institute Anne de Bretagne (1477-1514), twice queen of France as the spouse of Kings Charles VIII and Louis XII, including associations involving her daughters Claude de France, queen of France to Francis I (1499-1524), and Renée de France (1510-1575), who became duchess of Ferrara. About the speaker: Cynthia J. Brown, Distinguished Research Professor of French (Emerita) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializes in late medieval and early Renaissance French literature and culture and the history of the book. Her publications investigate the Rhétoriqueur poets, the transition from manuscript to print, and late medieval female patronage. Recent books on the cultural contributions of Queen Anne of Brittany include an edited volume (The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne: Negotiating Convention in Books and Documents [D. S. Brewer, 2010]) and a monograph, The Queen's Library: Image-Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514 (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). With Anne-Marie Legaré, she co-edited Women, Art and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Brepols, 2015), and more recently she edited a 2-volume issue of Le Moyen Français (81-82 [2018]) titled Manuscript to Print, Print to Digital: Editions in Performance and Performance in Editions in Late Medieval and Renaissance France (1400-1550). She is currently editing the works of Pierre Gringore. In 2013 Brown was named Chevalier des Palmes Académiques by the French Government. Illumination: Anne de France receives La Nef des dames vertueuses,from Symphorien Champier (1503) .