Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading Beyond Gender

ISBN-13: 9780521641944 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 244 str.

Rosalind Brown-Grant

Opis

Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite 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 Cite 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.

Recenzje

'This is a lucidly argued, well-structured, original, and perceptive monograph on four of Christine's prose texts.' Medium Aevum

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The 'querelle de la Rose': Christine's critique of misogynist doctrine and literary practice; 2. The Epistre Othéa: 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 Cités Dames: generic transformation and the moral defence of women; 5. The Livre des Trois Vertus: a betrayal of the Cité?