Welcome to Valerie Worth-Stylianou’s research website at Trinity College, University of Oxford.
I hope this website will give you an insight into the range of my main research interests and publications. Please feel free to browse it at your leisure, and share relevant research information and questions with me at valerie.worth@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.
For my research website on Birthing Tales in French medical writings (1500-1630), go to www.birthingtales.org.
Book due out shortly:
- Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France. Treatises by caring physicians and surgeons (1581-1625), translation and critical edition of treatises by François Rousset, Jean Liebault, Jacques Guillemeau, Jacques Duval and Louis de Serres, in the series The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Iter Press University of Toronto (forthcoming, 2013). For details, click here.
Recent publications:
- 'Virgilian Space in Renaissance French Translations of the Aeneid' in Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance, ed. P. Usher and I. Fernbach, Cambridge, D.S.Brewer, 2012.
- 'Etienne Dolet et l'édition médicale' in Etienne Dolet 1509-2009, ed. M. Clément, Geneva, Droz, 2012.
- ‘Teaching Rabelais in English translation', in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Rabelais, ed. T. W. Reeser and F. Gray, MLA, 2011
- ‘La théâtralisation de la naissance du dauphin (1601) chez Louise Bourgeois, sage-femme de Marie de Médicis', in Le "Théâtral" de la France d'Ancien Régime, ed. S. Chaouche, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2010.
- ‘The definition of obscene material 1570-1615: three medical treatises held to account’, Early Modern France (2010)
Recent reviews I've published:
- Conceiving the Old Regime. Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France by Leslie Tuttle, OUP, 2010: review in French History, 2012 at fh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/09/11/fh.crs088.full/
- Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France by Kirk Read, Ashgate, 2011: review forthcoming in De Partu Newsletter, 2012 at departu.org.uk/resources/newsletter-previous-issues/.
- Caesarean Birth: The work of François Rousset in Renaissance France, trsl and ed. by R.M. Cyr and T. F. Baskett, London, RCOG Press, 2010 at www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/
- Cathy McClive and Nicole Pellegrin (eds.), Femmes en fleurs, femmes en corps. Sang, santé, sexualités, du Moyen Age aux Lumières, Saint-Etienne, Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 2010 at shm.oxfordjournals.org/.
Bienvenue au site consacré aux recherches scientifiques de Valérie Worth-Stylianou.
J'espère qu'il vous permettra de découvrir plusieurs pôles de mes recherches. Si vous souhaitez me contacter, vous pouvez m'écrire à valerie.worth@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Pour mon site de recherches consacré aux 'Récits de Naissance'(1500-1630), voir www.birthingtales.org.
Livre à paraître bientôt:
- Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern France. Treatises by caring physicians and surgeons (1581-1625), version anglaise et édition critique des traités de François Rousset, Jean Liebault, Jacques Guillemeau, Jacques Duval et Louis de Serres, dans la série The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Iter Press University of Toronto (sous presse, 2013). Cliquez ici.
Articles et chapitres qui viennent de paraître:
- 'Virgilian Space in Renaissance French Translations of the Aeneid' in Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance, éd. P. Usher et I. Fernbach, Cambridge, D.S.Brewer, 2012.
- 'Etienne Dolet et l'édition médicale' in Etienne Dolet 1509-2009, éd. M. Clément, Genève, Droz, 2012.
- ‘Teaching Rabelais in English translation', in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Rabelais, éd. T. W. Reeser et F. Gray, MLA, 2011
- ‘La théâtralisation de la naissance du dauphin (1601) chez Louise Bourgeois, sage-femme de Marie de Médicis', in Le "Théâtral" de la France d'Ancien Régime, éd. S. Chaouche, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2010.
- ‘The definition of obscene material 1570-1615: three medical treatises held to account’, Early Modern France (2010)
Revues qui viennent de paraître:
- Conceiving the Old Regime. Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France par Leslie Tuttle, OUP, 2010: voir French History, 2012 à fh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/09/11/fh.crs088.full/
- Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France par Kirk Read, Ashgate, 2011: revue sous presse De Partu Newsletter, 2012 à departu.org.uk/resources/newsletter-previous-issues/.
- Caesarean Birth: The work of François Rousset in Renaissance France, trad. et éd. par R.M. Cyr and T. F. Baskett, London, RCOG Press, 2010 à www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/
- Cathy McClive et Nicole Pellegrin (éd.), Femmes en fleurs, femmes en corps. Sang, santé, sexualités, du Moyen Age aux Lumières, Saint-Etienne, Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 2010 à shm.oxfordjournals.org/.