The latest volume, No. 21 (2026), offers an interdisciplinary look at how the female body has been described, depicted, and interpreted across the centuries.
In this issue you will find the following articles:
The Lessons of the Scalpel: From Femine Anatomy to Physiology in Some Anatomical Texts at the Dawn of Modern Times
Jacqueline Vons
Inventing Female Anatomy in the Early Modern Period: Dissections and Interpretations of the Uterus
Annagiulia Gramenzi
A Curious Gender in Hermes and Asclepius: Some Remarks on the Historical Iconogyny of Alchemy and Anatomy
Hervé Baudry
Sexual Difference and the Uterus in Luis Mercado, Rodrigo de Castro, and Zacuto Lusitano
Cristina Pinheiro
The “Kobelt Moment” or Organically Founded Heterosexuality
Sylvie Chaperon
And Renart Created Woman: Representations of the Female Sex in the Roman De Renart
Nicolas Garnier
Naming and Representing the Female Anatomy in Early Renaissance Poetry
Pascale Chiron
Sex Words at the Heart of the Querelle des femmes in the Renaissance
Tatiana Clavier
The Female Sex and the Gaze of the Other in the “Visio prima” of the Catoptrum microcosmicum by Remmelin: “Between Medusa and the Abyss”
Nancy M. Frelick
The Female Reproductive System in Louis de Caseneuve’s emblemata medica (1626)
Magdalena Koźluk
Life in the Folds: Mary’s Uterus in French 17th-Century Catholic Sermons
Anne Régent-Susini
To Bloom and to Wither: Discourses and Knowledge about the ‘Hidden’ Nature of Women in Medical Writings in 16th- and 17th-Century France
Victoria Bujak
Vulva as Parergon. The Reception of Vulvar Images in Italy in the 15th-Century (Gentile da Fabriano, Sandro Botticelli)
Marie Piccoli-Wentzo
The Power of Plants. Sex and Coral in Early Modern Anatomical Illustration
Sara Petrella
From Print to Wool: Vesalius and the ‘Knit your own womb’ Movement
Helen King
Covering the Feminine Form in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine
Mary Hague-Yearl
‘Snatched Away’: Ageing Bias in Vulva Positive Social Media and Stock Photography Images of the Vulva
Kim Daly
The Female Sex in Contemporary Art: A Performing Organ
Magali Nachtergael
Drawing is Seeing
Caroline Boileau
Avant-propos
Hélène Cazes
“Folia Litteraria Romanica” is a journal with a long-standing tradition, whose origins date back to the late 1970s. The first issue appeared in 1982 on the initiative of Professor Kazimierz Kupisz as part of the series Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria. Since 2000, thanks to Professor Zbigniew Naliwajek, the journal has continued this publishing line, developing into an important forum for research on Romance literatures and languages.
You can find the link to the issue HERE. The articles are published in French.
Enjoy the reading!
