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18 de sept. de 2003 · Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts.
Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts.
9 de jun. de 1999 · Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view.
2 de oct. de 2000 · The Wife of Bath, Christine de Pizan, and the Medieval Case for Women.*. In reading medieval texts, literary scholars are frequently motivated by a desire not only to recover the original meaning of a work but also to show how it “may continue to speak to us” today as modern readers.1 However, whilst some scholars have been able to pursue ...
For her role as a champion of women’s moral and intellectual capacity and her remarkable literary activity, we will focus particularly on the late medieval author who was France’s first professional woman of letters and has been hailed by some as the Western tradition’s “first feminist,” Christine de Pizan (1364–1430?).
8 de nov. de 2019 · In this poem, Meun writes of courtly love, but also characterizes women as seducers and possessions. Christine’s public disagreement sparks the beginning of her first defense of women. This poem became very popular because a woman rising to the defense of her sex was extremely radical in the late medieval era.
1 de dic. de 2006 · Christine exhibited deep compassion when she wrote Letters Concerning Human Life after the French defeat at Agincourt in 1415, speaking to the widows of all wars from her own personal grief. The Vision, her last experiment in allegory, was written in 1405 and gives a fascinating representation of current events in France and Christine’s own life.
