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Christine de Pizan and the moral defence of women : reading beyond gender

Author: Rosalind Brown-Grant
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series: Cambridge studies in medieval literature, 40.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereo-types which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cite in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts." "This study shows that Christine's case for women nonetheless had an  Read more...
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Named Person: Christine, de Pisan; Christine, de Pisan; Christine, de Pisan; Christine <de Pisan>; Christine de Pisan
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Rosalind Brown-Grant
ISBN: 0521641942 9780521641944
OCLC Number: 42745529
Description: xiv, 224 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Cambridge studies in medieval literature, 40.
Responsibility: Rosalind Brown-Grant.

Abstract:

"Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereo-types which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cite in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts." "This study shows that Christine's case for women nonetheless had an underlying unity in its insistence on the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes."--Jacket.

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