The Selected Writings Of Christine De Pizan

Author : Christine De Pizan
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393970104
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan written by Christine De Pizan and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains selections from eighteen major works by Christine de Pizan, Europe's first professional woman writer, presented in contemporary translation with annotations, and includes an introduction, and seven critical analyses.

Author : Charlotte Cooper-Davis
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144418
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christine de Pizan written by Charlotte Cooper-Davis and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kate Langdon Forhan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351746383
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Theory of Christine De Pizan written by Kate Langdon Forhan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Christine de Pizan held no political office and her work was not influencial on any political theorist living today. However, in the disciplines of women's studies and French literature she has inspired intellectual debate, so much that the two sides of the debate are referred to as Christinophiles and Christinoclasts. This book persents the political paradoxes of Christine de Pizan. She was a woman in a man's world, an Italian at a French court, and the daughter of a civil servant in a world structured by social class. Her corpus of political works include five works designed to educate the male ruling class, two works expressly princesses and a treatise on warfare. The goal of this book is to outline the political theory of Christine de Pizan and situate her ideas within the history of political ideas in general.

Author : Barbara K. Altmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100014352X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christine de Pizan written by Barbara K. Altmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan wrote voluminously, commenting on various aspects of the late-medieval society in which she lived. Considered by many to be the first French woman of letters, Christine and her writing have been difficult to place ever since she began putting her thoughts on the page. Although her work was neglected in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, there has been a eruption of Christine studies in recent decades, making her the perfect subject for a casebook. This volume serves as a useful guide to contemporary research exploring Christine's life and work as they reflected and influenced her socio-political milieu.

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Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Author : Christine de Pizan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961015
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasure of the City of Ladies written by Christine de Pizan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Christine De Pizan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624667317
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings written by Christine De Pizan and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fresh, accurate, and engaging, this new translation of the Book of the City of Ladies helps us to understand what made Christine de Pizan so popular with her fifteenth-century contemporaries. The editors provide a rich historical and philosophical context that will be very useful to both students and scholars of the history of political ideas. The translations themselves gracefully navigate the fine line between accuracy and readability with considerable charm. Rounding out this portrait of the turmoil of fifteenth-century France, the volume is enriched by excerpts from other works, Christine's Vision, the Book of the Body Politic, and the Lamentation on France’s Ills." —Kate Forhan, Emeritus, Siena College CONTENTS:IntroductionA Note on Translating the Book of the City of LadiesChristine de Pizan: Her works, Her TimesSuggestions for Further ReadingFrom Christine's Vision (1405)The Book of the City of Ladies (1404–1405)From The Book of the Body Politic (1404–1407)From Lamentation on France's Ills (1410)Index

Author : Christine (de Pisan)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843840588
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vision of Christine de Pizan written by Christine (de Pisan) and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Marilynn Desmond
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816630806
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christine de Pizan : Texts/intertexts/contexts written by Marilynn Desmond and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christine de Pizan, an Italian-born writer in French in the early 15th century, composed lyric poetry, debate poetry, political biography, and allegory. Her texts constantly negotiate the hierarchical and repressive discourses of late medieval court culture. How they do so is the focus of this volume, which places Christine's work in the context of larger discussions about medieval authorship, identity, and categories of difference.

Author : Christine de Pizan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101651350
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of Ladies written by Christine de Pizan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture, written by France's first professional woman of letters. The pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine de Pizan 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 spirited defense of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture.