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15 de mar. de 2012 · Christine de Pizan's The Vision 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.
- March 15, 2012
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...
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-174) and index. 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.
Amazon.com: The Vision of Christine de Pizan (Library of Medieval Women): 9781843840589: McLeod, Glenda, Willard, Charity Cannon: Libros
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1 de dic. de 2006 · Her writings were varied and unique and offered an insightful perspective on life in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Europe, particularly France, and on the lives of medieval women. Her works stretched from poetry to allegory, from manuals of warfare to commentaries on contemporary politics.
- Amanda Beam
- 2006
Christine de Pizan's The Vision 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.
Christine de Pizan's The Vision 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.
