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11 de mar. de 2020 · Among the writings are passages from Christine's autobiography; lyric and allegorical poetry; excerpts from her official biography of King Charles V the Wise; her writings on women, warfare, politics, love, and the human condition; writings from her part in the famous Quarrel of the Rose; and Christine's triumphant poem on Joan of ...
28 de oct. de 2021 · The selected writings of Christine de Pizan : new translations, criticism : Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Among the writings are Christine s autobiography; lyric and allegorical poetry; the official biography of King Charles V; writings on women, warfare, politics, love, and the human condition;...
- The Treasure of The City of Ladies
- The City of Ladies
- The Letter to The God of Love
- The Importance of Christines Writings
The Treasure of the City of Ladies is a pragmatic book of advice, written for the courtly women of medieval Europe. In this book, she instructs women to be soft-spoken and gentle, to be peacemakers, and to be subservient to their husbands. Additionally, she also instructs women on what not to do — not to plunge into love affairs, not to act above t...
Some of Christine’s more famous and idealized works argue against the very gender roles she stresses in The Treasure of the City of Ladies. In The City of Ladies, she posits that women can do literally anything men can do in society, from soldiering to building. In this book, she illustrates her point most forcibly in describing a city made by and ...
Perhaps it is because Christine de Pizan was constrained by patriarchy and the patronage system throughout her career that she could not make more of her pro-women ideas. Yet regardless of how far she went (or did not go) in demanding equality between the sexes, she did challenge male misogyny at every turn. In her famed treatise, The Letter to the...
It is her popularity in her own society, and the information her works contain about both their subjects and her society, that make her important to medieval and early modern historians. Each of her writings gives the historian a wealth of information, even beyond the gender roles and gender expectations as detailed above. For instance, in The Trea...
The Writings of Christine de Pizan offers lengthy excerpts of nearly all of Christine’s works, in authoritative and gracious translations. Edited by Charity Cannon Willard, the foremost authority on Christine, and rendered into English by major scholars and translators, it presents the full range of Christine de Pizan's accomplishment.
26 de mar. de 2019 · Christine de Pizan (also given as Christine de Pisan, l. 1364 - c. 1430) was the first female professional writer of the Middle Ages and the first woman of letters in France. Her best-known works advocated for greater equality and respect for women, anticipating the feminist movement of the 19th century by 600 years.
5 de nov. de 2022 · The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Charlotte Cooper-Davis. 60 Accesses. 1 Citations. 6 Altmetric. Abstract. One of the most prolific writers of the Middle Ages, Christine de Pizan penned around thirty major works as well as hundreds of shorter poems.
