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

"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 ove...

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Main Author: Brown-Grant, Rosalind ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1999
Edition:First published
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval literature 40
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Summary:"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.
Physical Description:xiv, 224 Seiten
ISBN:0521641942

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