Author : Christine (de Pisan)
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Feminism
ISBN :
Christine de Pisan's writing is a valuable counterbalance to most of the rest of our evidence of medieval life which was written by men. She addresses all women, from those at the royal court to prostitutes, painting a vivid picture of their lives in fine detail-and often in a dryly amusing way. Her tone is moral, but also down to earth. A woman's position, as Christine herself knew, was hardly secure.
Author : Laura Rinaldi Dufresne
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2012
Category : French literature
ISBN : 9780773426276
Presents a detailed study of the illustrations in two important fifteenth century novels, The City and The Treasure. This book fills a gap in the scholarship by shifting the attention from their literary content to the imagery chosen to illustrate these two pioneering books on women and their worth.
Author : Christine de Pizan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0141961015
Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
Author : Christine (de Pisan)
Publisher :
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Prudence Allen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802833471
The culmination of a lifetime's scholarly work, this study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in Western thought from ancient times to the present. This volume is the second in her study, in which she explores claims about sex and gender identity in the works of over fifty philosophers (both men and women) in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods.
Author : Gina Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Christine (de Pisan)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : French poetry
ISBN : 1843840588
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.
Author : S. Jansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 023011881X
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. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.
Author : Matthew Z. Heintzelman
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1571134263
Annual volume of essays treating topics ranging from physical impairment to narrative afterlife and time.
Author : Judith M. Bennett
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0191667293
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed mainly by and about elite males, and how to combine social histories of lived experiences with cultural histories of gendered discourses and identities. The collection focuses on Western Europe in the Middle Ages but offers some consideration of medieval Islam and Byzantium. The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period. It contains material from some of the foremost scholars in this field, and it not only serves as the major reference text in medieval and gender studies, but also provides an agenda for future new research.
