Christine de Pizan: A Casebook

by Altmann,Barbara K.

• ISBN13: 9780415939096
• ISBN10: 0415939097
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Christine de Pizan wrote voluminously, commenting on various aspects of the late-medieval society in which she lived. Considered by many to be the first French woman of letters, Christine and her writing have been difficult to place ever since she began putting her thoughts on the page. This volume serves as a useful guide to contemporary research exploring Christine's life and work as they reflected and influenced her socio-political milieu.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Charity Cannon Willard
Introduction	1	(8)
Barbara K. Altmann
Deborah L. McGrady
Part I Christine in Context
Christine de Pizan and the Political Life in Late Medieval France	9	(16)
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Christine de Pizan as Translator and Voice of the Body Politic	25	(18)
Lori J. Walters
Somewhere between Destructive Glosses and Chaos: Christine de Pizan and Medieval Theology	43	(14)
Earl Jeffrey Richards
Christine de Pizan: Memory's Architect	57	(24)
Margarete Zimmermann
Part II Building a Female Community
Christine de Pizan as a Defender of Women	81	(20)
Rosalind Brown-Grant
Christine's Treasure: Women's Honor and Household Economies in the Livre des trois vertus	101	(14)
Roberta L. Krueger
Who's a Heroine? The Example of Christine de Pizan	115	(14)
Thelma Fenster
Le Livre de la cite des dames: Reconfiguring Knowledge and Reimagining Gendered Space	129	(20)
Judith L. Kellogg
Part III Christine's Writings
Love as Metaphor in Christine de Pizan's Ballade Cycles	149	(18)
Tracy Adams
The Querelle de la Rose and the Ethics of Reading	167	(14)
Marilynn Desmond
The Lessons of Experience and the Chemin de long estude	181	(18)
Andrea Tarnowski
The Livre de l'advision Cristine	199	(16)
Liliane Dulac
Christine Reno
``Nous deffens de feu,...de pestilence, de guerres'': Christine de Pizan's Religious Works	215	(16)
Maureen Boulton
Part IV Christine's Books
Christine and the Manuscript Tradition	231	(20)
James Laidlaw
Modern Editions: Makers of the Christinian Corpus	251	(20)
Nadia Margolis
Bibliography	271	(16)
Contributors	287	(4)
Index	291