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 last of Christine de Pizan’s book-length allegories, The Vision [L’Avision] was written at a time of tumult in both the history of France and Christine’s own professional life. It...
Originally published in 1993, this book offers a translation of Christine de Pizan's Christine's Vision, as translated by Glenda K. McLeod.
Schibanoff, Susan, 'Taking the gold out of Egypt: the art of reading as a woman', in Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart, eds., Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts and Contexts (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins ...
Brabant, Margaret, ed., Politics, Gender and Genre: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan (Oxford, 1992) Brown-Grant, Rosalind, Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender (Cambridge, 1999) Campbell, ...
"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.
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.
27 See Malcolm B. Parkes . The litcracy of the laity : in David Daiches and Anthony Thorlby ; cds . , Literature and Ilestern Cilisation , 6 vols . , The Vledicral Torld , vol . 2 ( London : Aldus Books , 1973 ) , 555 78 ; Eileen Power ...
See Christine de Pisan. Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc, ed. and trans. Angus J. Kennedy and Kenneth Varty, Medium Aevum Monographs, 9 (Oxford: Society for Mediaeval Languages and Literatures, 1977). An English translation appears in ...
The resulting volume affords a rare look at the way people read and thought about literature in the period immediately preceding the era of print.
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western ...