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Christine de Pisan
Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1430), a celebrated author and early feminist, was one of the outstanding women of her time. Her present revival has focused new critical attention on her work and contributions to late medieval culture. This revised and enlarged second edition is an annotated, cross-referenced bibliography including both primary and secondary source material. With three indexes. Entries include primary and secondary sources about Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1430), a celebrated author and early feminist.
The Order of the Rose
"Times Literary Supplement; 'Miss McLeod vicidly engages our attention. She has the ability to conjure up wide vistas or to paint portraits in very few words.....A very carefully researched, very considerable work which is often moving and always engaging becuase of Miss McLeod's great enthusiasm for the period, the prince and the poet. She has every student of fifteenth-century France deeply in her debt". PHILIP TOYNBEE: 'An admirable biography...She is caught up in the great issues of fifteenth-century France, and she is able to write them as if they were such impassioning contemporary issues as the Vietnam war....Miss McMleod brings the age alive with the vividness of a deep scholarship illuminated by an equally deep affection.' Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1970. "-Publisher
Christine de Pizan
"Readers will learn a great deal about Paris during the most tumultuous days of the Hundred Years' War, about the culture of Renaissance France, and most of all about this unusual and heroic woman."-Virginia Quarterly A biography of France's first woman of letters, who lived from 1364-1429. Among her works is the classic defense of women, The Book of the City of Ladies.
The Vision of Christine de Pizan
Translation of Christine's autobiographical "Vision", both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time.
The Writings of Christine de Pizan
Willard mark the major divisions of the book and set the writings in an historical, biographical, and literary context. References are annotated, and the sources of the translations are cited. The volume also includes biographical notes on the translators, extensive bibliography, and an index. Many years in the making, The Writings of Christine de Pizan has been long-awaited by both the general reader and the specialist.
Christine's Vision
"The last of Christine de Pizan’s book-length allegories, The Vision [L’Avision] was written at a time of tumult in both the history of France and Christine’s own professional life. It is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry V’s invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the author’s own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found itself in 1405, and offers a possible future, calling for its resolution in the voice of a prophet. Interwoven with this analysis is her ...
Livre de la Cité Des Dames Engl
Christine de Pizan attracted an international audience of admirers her during her lifetime, including many readers in England. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) is the earliest English translation of Le Livre de la cité des dames (ca. 1405) and the only version printed in French or English before the twentieth century. Her work stands as an early stronghold against misogynist thinking, with more than one hundred stories about women's capacity for intelligence and virtue assembled under the auspices of Reason, Rectitude, and Justice to form an allegorical City of Ladies. Modern readers can now rediscover Christine de Pizan's landmark defense of women in the French and English of its original readers. This new edition offers rich material for scholars interested in gender studies, history, humanism, and the field of Anglo-French literature. The facing page format lets readers closely compare the fifteenth-century Middle French of its female author with the sixteenth-century English text by a male translator. A critical introduction and scholarly annotations enhance its usefulness as a resource for students and critics.
The Book of the City of Ladies
'Philosophers, poets and orators too numerous to mention all speak with one voice and are unanimous in their view that female nature is wholly given up to vice.' It was this misogynist consensus that Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430), France's first professional woman of letters, confronted head-on in the City of Ladies. Here, with the help of Reason, Rectitude and Justice, Christine constructs an allegorical city in which to defend womankind, using examples of female virtue and achievement both from the past and her own day as the stones with which to build the city's walls and towers. A key text in the history of feminism, this book provides powerful, positive images of women and also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.
The Book of Peace
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