Contents -- List of Plates -- Conventions of Transcription -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Haunting Text and Paratext: Performing Intertextuality in Querelle Debates -- Performing intertextuality: the dynamics of rewriting -- Reading intertextuality: a 'spectropoetic' approach -- Rewriting the Rose: negotiating with spectres -- From critical reading to contemporary reception: text and paratext -- Haunted images: writing against the ghost -- Conclusion: the dynamics of intertextual performance -- Plates -- 2. Performing Conflict: The Drama of Debate -- Imagining debate: verbal attack and verbal display -- Debate as dramatic dialogue: orality and actio -- The theatre of debate: the page as stage -- The theatre of debate: the forensic stage -- Deferring verdicts: debating guilt and creating debate -- Epilogue: the case for women in context -- Plates -- 3. Representing Women in the Querelle des femmes -- Writer and patron: presentation and representation -- L'Opposition masculin-féminin: wearing cultural significations -- 'Becoming' woman: contextualizing gender identity -- Conclusion: representation as negotiation -- Conclusion: A New Shelf-Life? -- Appendix 1. Chronologies of Querelle des femmes Texts -- A. Chronology of primary texts -- B. Early printed editions of querelle des femmes texts -- Appendix 2. Lists of Manuscripts, Incunables, and Early Printed Editions -- A. Manuscripts and early printed editions of Le Champion des dames -- B. Manuscripts and early printed editions of the French translations of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.