Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women
Reading beyond Gender
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; 40;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 January 2000
- ISBN 9780521641944
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages244 pages
- Size 236x158x21 mm
- Weight 465 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The first book-length study of a seminal 'feminist' text from the Middle Ages.
MoreLong description:
Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cit&&&233; des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cit&&&233; in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts. Arguing that Christine tailored her critique of misogyny according to the genre in which she was writing and the audience she was addressing, 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. Whilst Christine may not have been a radical in modern feminist terms, she was able to draw upon the cultural resources of her day in order to construct an intellectual authority for herself that challenged the prevailing orthodoxy of the day.
'This is a lucidly argued, well-structured, original, and perceptive monograph on four of Christine's prose texts.' Medium Aevum
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. The 'querelle de la Rose': Christine's critique of misogynist doctrine and literary practice; 2. The Epistre Oth&&&233;a: an ethical and allegorical alternative to the Roman de la Rose?; 3. The Avision-Christine: a female exemplar for the princely reader; 4. The Livre de la Cit&&&233;s Dames: generic transformation and the moral defence of women; 5. The Livre des Trois Vertus: a betrayal of the Cit&&&233;?
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