Introduction -- Booksellers and the market to the 1550s -- The dignity & misery of man -- and of woman -- The Querelle des femmes -- The dialogue : beyond dignity & misery, beyond the Querelle des femmes -- Diversity, citation and the invention of the essay -- Books in the Palais de justice & their readers in the late 1500s to early 1600s -- Lawyers' pleadings, print and rhetoric in the Parlement de Paris -- Conclusion.
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