"A transcription into modernized early modern English of The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes, Brian Ansley's 1521 translation of Christine de Pizan's famous and epochal Livre de la citae…

Translation of Christine’s autobiographical Vision, both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time.

Drawing in equal parts from the Bible and from classical ethical theory, this book offers the author’s views on contemporary politics.

Evaluates Christine de Pizan’s literary engagement with fifteenth-century French politics. Locates the writer’s works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the…

A prolific poet and a protofeminist, Christine de Pizan worked within a sophisticated late medieval court culture and formed an identity as an authority on her society’s preoccupations with religion…

Readers will learn a great deal about Paris during the most tumultuous days of the Hundred Years’ War, about the culture of Renaissance France, and most of all about this…

Leben und Werke der Christine de Pizan ist ein unveranderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1885. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft…

The first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de…