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The Vision of Christine de Pizan

The Vision of Christine de Pizan


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About the Book

Christine de Pizan's The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry V's invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the author's own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found itself in 1405, and offers a possible future, callingfor its resolution in the voice of a prophet. Alongside her documentation of the difficulties faced by a medieval woman left widowed early in life, she also explores issues of gender and authorship, interpretation and misinterpretation in her remarkable career as a writer and advisor of princes.

Glenda McLeod is Professor Emerita, Gainesville State College; Charity Cannon Willard was Professor Emerita, Ladycliff College.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781843842989
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
  • Publisher Imprint: Boydell & Brewer
  • Depth: 13
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 199
  • Series Title: Library of Medieval Women
  • Weight: 240 gr
  • ISBN-10: 184384298X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: Reissue
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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