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1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) |
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Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 40 |
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Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 40.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- WORKS BY CHRISTINE DE PIZAN -- WORKS BY OTHER MEDIEVAL AUTHORS -- SECONDARY SOURCES ON THE WORKS OF CHRISTINE DE PIZAN -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The 'querelle de la Rose ': Christine's critique of misogynist doctrine and literary practice -- ANTI-FEMINISM IN THE FIRING LINE -- Misogyny in the 'Rose': men, women and love -- Defending the indefensible? Misogyny in the 'querelle' -- JEAN DE MEUNG'S ROSE: A POETICS OF MISOGYNY? |
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An 'auctor' assailed: authorship and authorityReadership and the 'Rose': response and responsibility -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 2 The 'Epistre Othéa': an ethical and allegorical alternative to the 'Roman de la Rose'? -- TRAINING THE READER -- FORSAKING FOOLISH LOVE -- PUTTING A GLOSS ON GENDER -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 3 The 'Avision-Christine': a female exemplar for the princely reader -- ALLEGORY, ETHICS AND POLITICS -- PUBLIC VIRTUE AND PRIVATE LIVES -- To play the king: lessons in leadership -- On earth as it is in heaven: lessons in social cohesion |
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(SELF)-PORTRAIT OF A LADY: REFLECTIONS OF A HUMAN SOULA widow's complaint -- The consolation of Philosophie -- An ethical model for the prince -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 4 The 'Livre de la Cité des Dames': generic transformation and the moral defence of women -- TELLING TITLES: CONCERNING FAMOUS OR INFAMOUS WOMEN? -- PREFATORY REMARKS: THREE AUTHORS IN SEARCH OF AUTHORITY -- PERSPECTIVES ON HISTORY: PROGRESS VERSUS DECLINE -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 5 The 'Livre des Trois Vertus': a betrayal of the 'Cité'? -- SUCCOURING THE SOUL: PIETY AND RATIONALITY |
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PRACTICAL MORALITY AND THE 'POLITICS OF VISIBILITY'WOMEN IN LOVE: REWRITING MISOGYNIST STEREOTYPES -- CONCLUSION -- Conclusion -- Index |
| Summary |
Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes that dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defense of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts. This study shows that Christine's case for women nonetheless had an underlying unity in its insistence on the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xiv) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 |
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Women in literature.
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Feminism -- Early works to 1800
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Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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Women -- Middle Ages
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Feminism
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Women in literature
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Feminisme.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Early works
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511010109 |
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9780511010101 |
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0511036434 |
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9780511036439 |
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0511051662 |
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9780511051661 |
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0511150989 |
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9780511150982 |
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