The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies
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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 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.
Glossary of names."--BOOK JACKET.
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.
The Fifteenth Century Illustrations Of Christine De Pizan S The Book Of The City Of Ladies And The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies
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Author : Laura Rinaldi Dufresne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Fifteenth Century Illustrations Of Christine De Pizan S The Book Of The City Of Ladies And The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies written by Laura Rinaldi Dufresne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with French literature categories.
Presents a detailed study of the illustrations in two important fifteenth century novels, The City and The Treasure. This book fills a gap in the scholarship by shifting the attention from their literary content to the imagery chosen to illustrate these two pioneering books on women and their worth.
The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies
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Author : Christine (de Pisan)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Treasure Of The City Of Ladies written by Christine (de Pisan) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Women categories.
The City Of Ladies
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Author : Christine de Pizan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-05-30
The City Of Ladies written by Christine de Pizan and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-30 with Social Science categories.
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.
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.
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.
Christine De Pizan
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Author : Charity Cannon Willard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Christine De Pizan written by Charity Cannon Willard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Readers will learn a great deal about Paris during the most tumultuous days of the Hundred Years' War, about the culture of Renaissance France, and most of all about this unusual and heroic woman.--Virginia Quarterly
Debate Of The Romance Of The Rose
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Author : Christine de Pizan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-04-15
Debate Of The Romance Of The Rose written by Christine de Pizan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with Social Science categories.
In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365–1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read Romance of the Rose for its blatant and unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. The debate that ensued, over not only the merits of the treatise but also of the place of women in society, started Europe on the long path to gender parity. Pizan’s criticism sparked a continent-wide discussion of issues that is still alive today in disputes about art and morality, especially the civic responsibility of a writer or artist for the works he or she produces. In Debate of the “Romance of the Rose,” David Hult collects, along with the debate documents themselves, letters, sermons, and excerpts from other works of Pizan, including one from City of Ladies—her major defense of women and their rights—that give context to this debate. Here, Pizan’s supporters and detractors are heard alongside her own formidable, protofeminist voice. 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.
