Overview :Christine de Pizan (1364/5-1430?) was arguably the first woman to support herself and her family as a professional writer and public intelle... Read More
Overview :Christine de Pizan, France s first woman of letters, is widely known for her classic Book of the City of Ladies (Persea, 1982), but very few... Read More
Overview :Christine de Pizan's The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry V's invasion o... Read More
Overview :"Criticism" collects seven important interpretations of the literary and historical aspects of Christine's work, by Jacqueline Cerquiglini, ... Read More
Overview :The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine ... Read More
Overview :Christine de Pizan, one of the earliest known women authors, wrote the Livre de paix (Book of Peace) between 1412 and 1414, a period of seve... Read More
Overview :A biography of France's first woman of letters, who lived from 1364-1429. Among her works is the classic defense of women, The Book of the C... Read More
Overview :Christine de Pizan (1364-?1430) was the first French woman poet to make her living by the pen, and the first female interpreter of classical... Read More
Overview :This title was first published in 2002: Christine de Pizan held no political office and her work was not influencial on any political theori... Read More
Overview :Martin Le Franc's prediction in Le Champion des dames (c. 1440) that Christine de Pizan's name would endure for ever is borne out in the cur... Read More
Overview :Illuminations: A Series in American PoeticsEdited by Jon ThompsonCompelled by the historical milieu, intriguing life story, and multi-facete... Read More
Overview :"Altmann is making a major contribution by providing this much-needed text of Christine's significant but inadequately known debate poems, t... Read More
Overview :Establishes the place of this medieval writer within considerations of "difference".Christine de Pizan, an Italian-born writer in French in ... Read More
Overview :It is unexpected in any era to find a woman writing a book on the art of warfare, but in the fifteenth century it was unbelievable. Not surp... Read More
Overview :It is unexpected in any era to find a woman writing a book on the art of warfare, but in the fifteenth century it was unbelievable. Not surp... Read More
Overview :In this book, Sharon L. Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retre... Read More