Nicole DUFOURNAUD

In 2007, Nicole Dufournaud defended her doctoral dissertation, supervised by André Burguière of l’EHESS (Paris), on the “The role and powers of women during the sixteenth century in Western France.” A specialist on the role of women during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, her research focuses on women’s work —merchants in particular— women in kinship relations, discourses on gender equality/inequality, women in arms, the transfer of property, and the legal construction of gender categories. Her analyses are based on computer methods that facilitate data analysis of digitized and transcribed texts on the role of women in France’s Ancien Régime economy and society. With Bernard Michon she co-edited Femmes et négoce dans les ports européens..., which was published in December 2018 by Peter Lang.

Personal website: http://nicole.dufournaud.org/

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Pierre Cousteau, “Contre ceux qui vivent souz l’empire de leurs femmes” (Against those who live under the control of their wives”), Le Pegme, Lyon, Barthelemy Molin, 1560. In this book of emblems—works presenting a succession of maxims associated with a poem illustrated by a drawing—by Pierre Cousteau (died 1567), a number of chapters discuss women’s condition, and convey messages hostile to women in positions of power. They are illustrated with an image of Simiamire—the mother of the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus, whom he authorized to sit in the Senate—seated on a throne and discussing with other women. Source : archive.org
From Humanism to Enlightenment

The Querelle des dames during the Renaissance

Nicole DUFOURNAUD

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