List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsSusan Broomhall, In the Orbit of the King: Women, Power and Authority at the French Court, 1483-1563I. CONCEPTUALIZING AND PRACTISING FEMALE POWER1. Aubrée David-Chapy The Political, Symbolic and Courtly Power of Anne de France and Louise de Savoie: From the Genesis to the Glory of Female Regency2. Tracy Adams Anne de France and Gift-Giving: The Exercise of Power3. Laure Fagnart and Mary Beth Winn Louise de Savoie: The King's Mother, Alter RexII. CENTRES AND PERIPHERIES OF POWER 4. Erin A. Sadlack Literary Lessons in Queenship and Power: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Authority of the Ambassador-Queen5. Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier Claude de France and the Spaces of Agency of a Marginalized Queen6. Lisa Mansfield Portraits of Eleanor of Austria: From Invisible to Inimitable French Queen ConsortIII. THE POWER OF CREATIVE VOICES7. Cynthia J. Brown Family Female Networking in Early Sixteenth-Century France: The Power of Text and Image8. Mawy Bouchard The Power of Reputation and Skills according to Anne de Graville: The Rondeaux and the Denunciation of Slander9. Jonathan A. Reid Imagination and Influence: The Creative Powers of Marguerite de Navarre at Work at Court and in the World10. Pollie Bromilow Power through Print: The Works of Hélisenne de CrenneIV. ECONOMIES OF POWER AND EMOTIONS11. David Potter The Life and After-Life of a Royal Mistress: Anne de Pisseleu, Duchess of Etampes12. Susan Broomhall "The King and I": Rhetorics of Power in the Letters of Diane de Poitiers13. Denis Crouzet Catherine de Médicis Tested by the Virtue of Charity (1533-1559): Discourse and Metadiscourse

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Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia. She was a Foundation Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and holds an ARC Future Fellowship within the Centre, researching the letters of Catherine de Médicis.