Christine de Pizan : a casebook / edited by Barbara K. Altmann and Deborah L. McGrady.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Altmann, Barbara K., 1957-

McGrady, Deborah L., 1967-

Series:

Medieval casebooks

Routledge medieval casebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431.

Christine.

Physical Description:

xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

As the first European professional woman writer, born in Venice and raised at the court of Charles V of France, Christine de Pizan (c. 1365-1430) composed texts on a remarkable array of subjects including poetry, biography, philosophy, religion, and politics. Initially regarded by scholars as a curious anomaly, Christine's works are now seen to offer pivotal insight into the turbulence of fifteenth-century France. In this volume, Barbara K. Altmann and Deborah L. McGrady have assembled fifteen distinguished scholars who shed new light on Christine's writings and contributions to late medieval culture. Drawing upon historical context, feminist readings, close literary analysis and aspects of codicology and critical reception, the essays herein illuminate Christine's well-known texts, including the Querelle de la Rose and the Livre de l'advision Cristine, as well as the myriad facets of her life as author, advocate for women, translator, political philosopher, and the first French woman of letters. With a foreword by Charity Cannon Willard, the preeminent Christine scholar in the United States, Christine de Pizon: A Casebook is an inviting introduction for those new to Christine studies and a valuable reference for specialists in the field.

Contents:

Part I Christine in Context

2. Christine de Pizan and the Political Life in Late Medieval France / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski 9

3. Christine de Pizan as Translator and Voice of the Body Politic / Lori J. Walters 25

4. Somewhere between Destructive Glosses and Chaos: Christine de Pizan and Medieval Theology / Earl Jeffrey Richards 43

5. Christine de Pizan: Memory's Architect / Margarete Zimmermann 57

Part II Building a Female Community

6. Christine de Pizan as a Defender of Women / Rosalind Brown-Grant 81

7. Christine's Treasure: Women's Honor and Household Economies in the Livre des trois vertus / Roberta L. Krueger 101

8. Who's a Heroine? The Example of Christine de Pizan / Thelma Fenster 115

9. Le Livre de la cite des dames: Reconfiguring Knowledge and Reimagining Gendered Space / Judith L. Kellogg 129

Part III Christine's Writings

10. Love as Metaphor in Christine de Pizan's Ballade Cycles / Tracy Adams 149

11. The Querelle de la Rose and the Ethics of Reading / Marilynn Desmond 167

12. The Lessons of Experience and the Chemin de long estude / Andrea Tarnowski 181

13. The Livre de l'advision Cristine / Liliane Dulac, Christine Reno 199

14. "Nous deffens de feu, ... de pestilence, de guerres": Christine de Pizan's Religious Works / Maureen Boulton 215

Part IV Christine's Books

15. Christine and the Manuscript Tradition / James Laidlaw 231

16. Modern Editions: Makers of the Christinian Corpus / Nadia Margolis 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references 271-286) and index.

ISBN:

0415939097

OCLC:

50002654