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Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1421) is Europe’s first professional woman writer. She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres, including lyric poetry, allegorical dream visions, history, political treatises, and biography., The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan, A Norton Critical Edition, Christine de Pizan, Kevin Brownlee, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate Blumenfeld ...
29 de ene. de 2016 · Pizan wrote The Book of Deeds around 1410 during the Hundred Years’ War, a time of conflict between France and England, as well as among various factions for control of France itself. In most of her writings related to politics, her purpose was “to advise the French royal family against the disastrous political infighting that brought the monarchy to the brink of civil war.” The work was ...
The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the cultural heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the book trade, writing more than forty works that included poetry, historical and political treatises, and defenses of women. In ...
Hace 1 día · Christine de Pisan (Christine de Pizan) was a medieval writer and historiographer who advocated for women’s equality. Her works, considered to be some of the earliest feminist writings, include poetry, novels, biography, and autobiography, as well as literary, political, and religious commentary. De Pisan became the first woman in France, and ...
Christine de Pizan was a prolific, esteemed writer in her time. Between 1399 and 1430, she composed an abundance of lyric and narrative poetry, allegorical treatises, autobiographical dream visions, and prose treatises for men and women of the French royal family and for the dukes of Burgundy.
Christine de Pizan’s writings were not only a reflection of the social and political climate of her time, but also a response to the prevailing attitudes towards women. Women were largely excluded from education and intellectual pursuits, and were expected to conform to traditional gender roles.
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.
