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Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies.
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* Christine Buci-Glucksmann, " L ’ art à l ’ époque virtuel ", in Frontières esthétiques de l ’ art, Arts 8, Paris: L ’ Harmattan, 2004
Christine de Pizan ( also seen as de Pisan ) ( 1363 – c. 1430 ) was a Venetian-born late medieval author who challenged misogyny and stereotypes prevalent in the late medieval culture.
Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1949 that Épître au Dieu d ' Amour was " the first time we see a woman take up her pen in defense of her sex " making Christine de Pizan perhaps the West's first feminist, or protofeminist as some scholars prefer to say.
The first English translation of Christine de Pizan ’ s The Treasure of the City of Ladies: or The Book of the Three Virtues is Sarah Lawson ’ s ( 1985 ).
* The standard biography about Christine de Pizan is Charity Cannon Willard ’ s Christine de Pisan: Her Life and Works ( 1984 ).
Willard ’ s biography also provides a comprehensive overview of the “ Querelle du Roman de la Rose .” Kevin Brownlee also discusses this debate in detail in his article Widowhood, Sexuality and Gender in Christine de Pisan ( in The Romanic Review, 1995 )
* For a more detailed account of Christine de Pizan ’ s rhetorical strategies refer to Jenny R. Redfern ’ s excerpt Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies: A Medieval Rhetorician and Her Rhetoric ( in Reclaiming Rhetorica, ed.
* M. Bell Mirabella discusses Christine ’ s ability to refute the patriarchal discourse in her article Feminist Self-Fashioning: Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies ( in The European Journal of Women ’ s Studies, 1999 ).
Vincent B. Leitch, 2001 ) for some commentary on Christine de Pizan ’ s life, literary works, rhetorical contributions and other relevant sources that one may find useful.
* Altmann, Barbara K., " Christine de Pizan as Maker of the Middle Ages ," in: Cahier Calin: Makers of the Middle Ages.
Christine and Pizan
* Dulac, Liliane, Anne Paupert, Christine Reno, and Bernard Ribémont, eds., Desireuse de plus avant enquerre ... Actes du VIe colloque international sur Christine de Pizan ( Paris juillet 2006 ): Volume en hommage à James Laidlaw ( Paris, Éditions Champion, 2008 ) ( Etudes Christinienne ).
Healing the Body Politic: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2005.
* Richards, Earl Jeffrey, ed., Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
* Angus J. Kennedy's " Christine de Pizan: A Bibliographical Guide and supplements ( London: Grant & Cutler, 1984, 1994, 2004 ).
Christine and Book
The Book of the City of Ladies ( 1405 ), or Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, is perhaps Christine de Pizan's most famous literary work, and it is her second work of lengthy prose.
Christine is quoted in The Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits as saying of her solo album, " Maybe it isn't the most adventurous album in the world, but I wanted to be honest and please my own ears with it.
Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies continues the convention of calling the Queen of Sheba, Nicaula.
Christine Meyer has offered compelling evidence to show that Senenmut was a bachelor for his entire life: for instance, Senenmut is portrayed alone with his parents in the funerary stelae of his tombs ; he was depicted alone, rather than with a wife, in the vignette of Chapter 110 from the Book of the Dead in tomb 353 and, finally, it was one of Senenmut's own brothers, and not one of his sons, who was charged with the execution of Senenmut's funerary rites.
Likewise, when the aged Montgomery Scott meets her in Excalibur Book 2: Renaissance, he thinks she is " Christine " ( Chapel ).
Boccaccio's collection of female biographies inspired characters in Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies, Alvaro de Luna's De las virtuosas y claras mujeres, Thomas Elyot's Defence of Good Women, Alonso of Cartagena's De las mujeres ilustres, Giovanni Sabbadino degli Arienti's Gynevera de la clare donne, Iacopo Filippo Forest's De plurimis claris selectisque mulierbus, Jean Lemaire's Couronne margaritique, and various works by Edmund Spenser.
Book publications, magazines, public readings and literary prizes chronicle and divulge a multitude of writers, i. e. novelists, playwrights, prosaists, essayists and poets, such as Reinhold Aumaier, Zedenka Becker, Adelheid Dahimène, Dimitré Dinew, Martin Dragosits, Klaus Ebner, Günter Eichberger, Olga Flor, Karin Geyer, Thomas Glavinic, Constantin Göttfert, Egyd Gstättner, Klaus Händl, Ludwig Laher, Gabriel Loidolt, Wolfgang Kauer, Daniel Kehlmann, Michael Köhlmeier, Melamar, Wolfgang Pollanz, Doron Rabinovici, Gudrun Seidenauer, Linda Stift, Vladimir Vertlib, Christine Werner, Peter Paul Wiplinger.
* Geraghty, Christine and David Lusted, eds., The Television Studies Book ( New York: Arnold, 1998 )
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