Papers From the 1981 Berkshire Conference: Widowhood and Rational Domesticity: Modes of Independence for Women in Early Modern Europe

Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille , Seigneur de 1864- Oeuvres Completes Ed., L. Lalanne , Paris. 1881 Quoted in Kelso, 1966.

Davis, Natalie Zemon 1980 "Women in the Arts Méchaniques in Sixteenth-Century Lyon ." In Lyon et L'Europe: Hommes et sociétés; Melanges d'histoire offerts à Richard Gascon. Lyon.

Kelso, Ruth 1966 Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance. Urbana, Illinois.

Roelker, Nancy L. 1972a "The Role of Noblewomen in the French Reformation ." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 63:168-195.

1972b "The Appeal of Calvinism to French Noblewomen in the Sixteenth Century." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2:391-418.