ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book draws on the map circulation of French ideas about man and woman from the late 1400s to the early 1600s, exploring in depth for the first time the fundamental connections between the Querelle des femmes on the nature of woman and the Renaissance debate on the dignity and misery of man. It establishes the connection between the rhetoric of praise and blame found in the Querelle des femmes and writing on human nature and the forensic rhetoric employed by advocates in their pleadings before the Parlement de Paris. The book examines the Renaissance ideas of man and woman side by side we discover the extent to which many of the common places of the early sixteenth-century Querelle des femmes originated in the discussion of the dignity and misery of man.
