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Cities Of Ladies
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Author : Walter Simons
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2001
Cities Of Ladies written by Walter Simons and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The definitive study. . . . A learned, lively, and highly readable book, now the essential introduction to the subject.--Choice
The Book Of The City Of Ladies
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Author : Christine Pizan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1999-06-09
The Book Of The City Of Ladies written by Christine Pizan and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-09 with Literary Collections categories.
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 spirited defence 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. THE CITY OF LADIES provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.
Cities Of Ladies
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Author : Walter Simons
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Cities Of Ladies written by Walter Simons and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with History categories.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to form in the cities and towns of the Low Countries. These beguines, as the women came to be known, led lives of contemplation and prayer and earned their livings as laborers or teachers. In Cities of Ladies, the first history of the beguines to appear in English in fifty years, Walter Simons traces the transformation of informal clusters of single women to large beguinages. These veritable single-sex cities offered lower- and middle-class women an alternative to both marriage and convent life. While the region's expanding urban economies initially valued the communities for their cheap labor supply, severe economic crises by the fourteenth century restricted women's opportunities for work. Church authorities had also grown less tolerant of religious experimentation, hailing as subversive some aspects of beguine mysticism. To Simons, however, such accusations of heresy against the beguines were largely generated from a profound anxiety about their intellectual ambitions and their claims to a chaste life outside the cloister. Under ecclesiastical and economic pressure, beguine communities dwindled in size and influence, surviving only by adopting a posture of restraint and submission to church authorities.
The Book Of The City Of Ladies
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Author : Christine De Pizan
language : en
Publisher: Persea Books
Release Date : 1998-06-01
The Book Of The City Of Ladies written by Christine De Pizan and has been published by Persea Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-01 with History categories.
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 Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to men. Earl Jeffrey Richards' acclaimed translation is used nationwide in the most eminent colleges and universities in America, from Columbia to Stanford.
The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies
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Author : Christine de Pizan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-10-30
The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies written by Christine de Pizan and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-30 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
The Book Of The City Of Ladies
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Author : Christine (de Pisan)
language : en
Publisher: New York : Persea Books
Release Date : 1982
The Book Of The City Of Ladies written by Christine (de Pisan) and has been published by New York : Persea Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Feminism categories.
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 Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to men. Earl Jeffrey Richards' acclaimed translation is used nationwide in the most eminent colleges and universities in America, from Columbia to Stanford.
Cities Of Women
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Author : Kathleen B. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2023-09-05
Cities Of Women written by Kathleen B. Jones and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Fiction categories.
“With a scholar’s commitment to accurate detail, and the heart of a lover of beauty, Kathleen B. Jones’s engaging and well-crafted parallel story is as colorful and lucid as the illuminated manuscripts at the center of her novel.” —Laurel Corona, author of The Mapmaker’s Daughter A deeply affecting dual narrative separated by several centuries, Cities of Women examines the lives of women who dare to challenge the social norms of their days, risking their reputations and livelihoods for the sake of their passions. In the twenty-first century, we meet Verity Frazier, a disillusioned history professor who sets out to prove that the artist responsible for the illuminated artwork in Christine de Pizan’s medieval manuscripts was a remarkable woman named Anastasia. As Anastasia’s story unfolds against the exquisitely-rendered medieval backdrop of moral disaster, political intrigue, and extraordinary creativity, Verity finds her career on the brink of collapse by her efforts to uncover evidence of the lost artist’s existence. Inspired by a decade of research, Jones has woven together a luminous and incisive masterpiece of historical fiction, evoking the spare joys and monumental pitfalls facing medieval women artists and a contemporary woman who becomes obsessed with medieval books.
The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies
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Author : Christine (de Pisan)
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-09-30
The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies written by Christine (de Pisan) and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-30 with History categories.
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The Book Of The City Of Ladies And Other Writings
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Author : Christine De Pizan
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2018-09-15
The Book Of The City Of Ladies And Other Writings written by Christine De Pizan and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-15 with Fiction categories.
"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
The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies Or The Book Of The Three Virtues
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Author : Christine (de Pisan)
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date : 1985
The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies Or The Book Of The Three Virtues written by Christine (de Pisan) and has been published by Penguin Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Feminism categories.
Christine de Pisan's writing is a valuable counterbalance to most of the rest of our evidence of medieval life which was written by men. She addresses all women, from those at the royal court to prostitutes, painting a vivid picture of their lives in fine detail-and often in a dryly amusing way. Her tone is moral, but also down to earth. A woman's position, as Christine herself knew, was hardly secure.