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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 nu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown-Grant, Rosalind
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 40.
Temas:
Christine, > de Pisan, > approximately 1364-approximately 1431 > Criticism and interpretation.
Christine, > de Pisan, > approximately 1364-approximately 1431 > Critique et interprétation.
Christine, > de Pisan, > approximately 1364-approximately 1431
500-1500
Women in literature.
Feminism > Early works to 1800.
Women > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Féminisme > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Femmes > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Femmes dans la littérature.
POETRY > Continental European.
Women > Middle Ages
Feminism
Women in literature
Feminisme.
History
Early works
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?
  • 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
  • (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
  • PRACTICAL MORALITY AND THE 'POLITICS OF VISIBILITY'WOMEN IN LOVE: REWRITING MISOGYNIST STEREOTYPES
  • CONCLUSION
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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