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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
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.
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 Book of Peace
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The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Glossary of names."--BOOK JACKET.
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 the City of Ladies
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to men. Earl Jeffrey Richards' acclaimed translation is used nationwide in the most eminent colleges and universities in America, from Columbia to Stanford.
Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France
In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan’s literary engagement with contemporary politics. Adams locates Christine’s works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions in fifteenth-century France. Contrary to what many scholars have long believed, Christine consistently supported the Armagnac faction throughout her literary career and maintained strong ties to Louis of Orleans and Isabeau of Bavaria. By focusing on the historical context of the Armagnac-Burgundian feud at different moments and offering close readings of Christine’s poetry and prose, Adams shows the ways in which the writer was closely engaged with and influenced the volatile politics of her time.
