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    The Epistle of the Prison of Human Life: With an Epistle to the Queen of France and Lament on the Evils of the Civil War

    Originally published in 1984, the three epistolary works of Christine de Pizan, alongside their translation. They are all personal documents from a woman who gave spiritual advice as well as…

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    The Book of the City of Ladies

    Christine, de Pizan

    Christine de Pisan was a pioneer among female authors of the Middle Ages. This text is her first and foremost attempt to defend women from literary misogyny prevalent at the…

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    Logbuch fur Venedig oder Bundnis Christine de Pizan: Reiseberichte und Geschichten

    Rolf Dieter Kaufmann

    Dieses Werk besteht aus Reiseberichten und Geschichten, die in Venedig spielen. Es ist zugleich ein Sachbuch mit viel Insider-Wissen uber Venedig. In den folgenden Texten und Bildern zeigt sich Venedig…

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    The Book of the Body Politic

    Christine de Pizan

    A translation into modern English of Christine de Pizan’s major political work, The Book of the Body Politic. Written during the Hundred Years’ War by France’s first female professional writer…

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    The Book of the Mutability of Fortune

    Christine De Pizan,Geri L. Smith

    Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France’s first professional woman of letters, and interest in her voluminous and wide-ranging corpus has been steadily rising for…

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    Debate of the Romance of the Rose

    Christine de Pizan

    In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly…

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    The Book of the Body Politic

    Christine De Pizan,Angus J. Kennedy

    The first political treatise written by a woman.

    Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the Body Politic is the first political treatise written by a woman. It not only advises…

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    Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine De Pizan’s Epistre Othea

    Marilynn Desmond,Pamela Sheingorn

    Explores the ethical implications of viewing illustrated manuscripts for the medieval reader. This work suggests that pre-modern and post-modern cultures share a predilection for the cinematic arrangement of knowledge in…

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    Les Epistres Sur Le Roman de La Rose Von Christine de Pizan (1888)

    Friedrich Beck

    Das Buch ""Les Epistres Sur Le Roman De La Rose Von Christine De Pizan (1888)"" von Friedrich Beck ist eine Sammlung von Briefen der franz??????sischen Schriftstellerin Christine de Pizan. Die…

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    Female Authorship, Patronage, and Translation in Late Medieval France: From Christine de Pizan to Louise Labe

    Anneliese Pollock Renck

    Under what conditions did women in late medieval France learn to read and write? What models of female erudition and authorship were available to them in the fourteenth and fifteenth…

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    The Book of the Duke of True Lovers

    Christine de Pizan

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    Christine de Pizan in Text und Bild: Zur Selbstdarstellung einer fruhhumanistischen Intellektuellen. Ergebnisse der Frauenforschung, Band 36

    Barbel Zuhlke

    Dieser Band beleuchtet in interdisziplinarer Breite die Selbstwahrnehmung einer schreibenden Frau, die sich selbst als Autorin in der Nachfolge Dantes versteht.

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    Christine de Pizan’s Advice for Princes in Middle English Translation: Stephen Scrope’s The Epistle of Othea and the Anonymous Litel Bibell of Knyghthod

    Brings together for the first time the two late medieval English translations, Stephen Scrope’s precise translation The Epistle of Othea and the anonymous Litel Bibell of Knyghthod, once criticized as…

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    Christine de Pizan’s Advice for Princes in Middle English Translation: Stephen Scrope’s The Epistle of Othea and the Anonymous Litel Bibell of Knyghthod

    Brings together for the first time the two late medieval English translations, Stephen Scrope’s precise translation The Epistle of Othea and the anonymous Litel Bibell of Knyghthod, once criticized as…

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    Reading Women’s Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing: A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own

    S. Jansen

    In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men.

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    Reading Women’s Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing: A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own

    S. Jansen

    In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men.

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    Reading Women’s Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing: A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own

    S. Jansen

    In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men.

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    Othea’s Letter to Hector

    Christine De Pizan,Renate Blumenfeld-kosi,Earl Jeffrey Richard

    Othea’s Letter to Hector, one of Christine de Pizan’s most popular works, is at the same time one of her most complex creations. Combining a somewhat Sibylline verse text based…

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    The Book of the City of Ladies

    Christine de Pizan

    In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have…

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    The Book of the City of Ladies

    Christine De Pizan

    Astonishing, original…an early chapter in women’s revisionary history [that] offers true eloquence resurrected from the silence of the past. -The New York Times Book Review

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    Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings

    Christine De Pizan

    A translation of Christine de Pizan’s Christine’s Vision, The Book of the City of Ladies, the Lamentation on France’s Ills and her Book of Body Politic, with an introduction providing…

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    A Medieval Woman’s Mirror of Honor: The Treasury of the City of Ladies

    Christine de Pisan

    This is the sequel to the classic Book of the City of Ladies. A medieval instruction book for women of all classes – from peasant to princess – it provides…

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    Antigone’s Example: Early Modern Women’s Political Writing in Times of Civil War from Christine de Pizan to Helen Maria Williams

    Mihoko Suzuki

    This book investigates early modern women’s interventions in politics and the public sphere during times of civil war in England and France. it elucidates their historical specificity as well as…

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    Collection Complete Des Memoires Relatifs A l'Histoire de France. 7 (Ed.1824)

    Christine de Pizan,Pierre De Fenin,Pierre Fenin (De)

    Collection complete des memoires relatifs a l'histoire de France. 7, Le livre des faicts du mareschal de Boucicaut. Seconde partie. Memoires de Pierre de Fenin, escuyer et panetier de Charles…

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    Christine de Pizan: Le Livre de Faiz d'Armes Et de Chevallerie / Buoch Von Dem Vechten Und Von Der Ritterschaft: Edition Des Franzoesischen Textes Und Der Alemannischen UEbersetzung

    This volume unites not just the first editions of Christine’s de Pizan military and warfare treatise (1410), but also its translation into High Alemannic. As a significant medieval witness to…

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    Politics, Gender, And Genre

    Margaret Brabant

    This book is a valuable contribution to medieval studies and political theory as well as to the history of feminist thought. It will be essential reading for philosophers and political…

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