Christine de Pizan
Title | Christine de Pizan PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Cooper-Davis |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2021-11-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1789144418 |
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 this new biography—the first written for a general audience—Charlotte Cooper-Davis discusses the life and work of this pioneering female thinker and writer. She shows how Christine de Pizan’s inspiration came from the world around her, situates her as an entrepreneur within the context of her times and place, and finally examines her influence on the most avant-garde of feminist artists, through whom she is slowly making a return into mainstream popular culture.
The Vision of Christine de Pizan
Title | The Vision of Christine de Pizan PDF eBook |
Author | Christine (de Pisan) |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | French poetry |
ISBN | 1843840588 |
Translation of Christine's autobiographical "Vision", both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time.
The Book of Peace
Title | The Book of Peace PDF eBook |
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Pages | 532 |
Release | 1845 |
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The Book of the Mutability of Fortune
Title | The Book of the Mutability of Fortune PDF eBook |
Author | Christine (de Pisan) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2017-03 |
Genre | Education |
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Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364–ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France’s first professional woman of letters, and interest in her voluminous and wide-ranging corpus has been steadily rising for decades. During the tumultuous later years of the Hundred Years’ War, Christine’s lone but strong feminine voice could be heard defending women, expounding the highest ideals for good governance, and lamenting France’s troubled times alongside her own personal trials. In The Mutability of Fortune, Christine fuses world history with autobiography to demonstrate mankind’s subjugation to the ceaselessly changing, and often cruel, whims of Fortune. Now, for the first time, this poem is accessible to an English-speaking audience, further expanding our appreciation of this ground-breaking woman author and her extraordinary body of work.
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Title | The Treasure of the City of Ladies PDF eBook |
Author | Christine de Pizan |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2003-10-30 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0141961015 |
Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France
Title | Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France PDF eBook |
Author | Tracy Adams |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2015-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0271066334 |
In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan’s literary engagement with contemporary politics. Adams locates Christine’s works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions in fifteenth-century France. Contrary to what many scholars have long believed, Christine consistently supported the Armagnac faction throughout her literary career and maintained strong ties to Louis of Orleans and Isabeau of Bavaria. By focusing on the historical context of the Armagnac-Burgundian feud at different moments and offering close readings of Christine’s poetry and prose, Adams shows the ways in which the writer was closely engaged with and influenced the volatile politics of her time.
Ditié de Jehanne D'Arc
Title | Ditié de Jehanne D'Arc PDF eBook |
Author | Christine (de Pisan) |
Publisher | Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Poetry |
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