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Christine de Pisan
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Christine de Pisan (1364–c. 1430)

French poet and historian. Her works include love lyrics, philosophical poems, a poem in praise of Joan of Arc, a history of Charles V of France, and various defences of women, including La Cité des dames/The City of Ladies (1405), which contains a valuable series of contemporary portraits.

She championed her sex against the satire of Jean de Meung (who completed the Roman de la Rose) in Epître du dieu d'amour/Epistle of the God of Love (1399), as also in Dit de la rose/Tale of the Rose (1402).

Born in Venice, she was brought to France as a child when her father entered the service of Charles V. In 1389, after the death of her husband, the Picardian nobleman Etienne Castel, she began writing to support herself and her family. She tells her own story in La Vision/The Vision (1405). Livre des trois vertus/The Book of Three Virtues (1407) provides a description of the domestic life of the time.



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Although his title evokes the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, a late medieval writer who celebrated extraordinary women from history and literature, Simons concentrates on the mostly inconspicuous and ordinary women who became beguines in the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries.
Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, ... by Bouchard, Constance B. / Journal of Social History
We follow Norris through perceptive readings of works scattered throughout the canon, Milton, Christine de Pizan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anita Brookner.
WITHOUT THE CORE by Wheeler, Edward T. / Commonweal
This book's major interests appear to concentrate on Chaucerian studies and on late medieval English literature in general, but its rich attention to texts in Latin, Italian, and French (with a firm grasp of the philological issues involved in them), and specifically to passages in continental Books of Hours, in Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan as well as in Dante and Petrarch, makes a useful contribution to early Renaissance studies.
Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages. ... by Kennedy, William J. / Renaissance Quarterly
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