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Christine Pizan

The Book of the City of Ladies

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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. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan's spi… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Brown-Grant, Rosalind (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-14-190758-1
  • EAN: 9780141907581
  • Produktnummer: 17831000
  • Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'874 KB

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Christine de Pizan (1364-c.1430) was one of the most remarkable and respected literary figures in the courts of medieval Europe. She was the only professional woman writer of her time and secured an enviable reputation with her lyric poetry. She went on to write with success on moral and political issues, as well as producing a biography of Charles V.Rosalind Brown-Grant is Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds, where she specializes in medieval literature.Rosalind Brown-Grant took he BA and Ph.D. at the University of Manchester and is now Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds, where she specialises in medieval literature.

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