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May 14, 2024 · As one of the first readers in France of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, but also as a correspondent for academics such as Jean de Montreuil, Jean Gerson and the Col brothers, Christine de Pizan is part of the milieu of French pre-humanism.
May 20, 2024 · Notably, she is known to have owned a copy of Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies. She was also known for her acts of piety. She made donations of books and money to Oxford University, she made contributions to various religious institutions, and she gave alms to the poor.
May 30, 2024 · Earenfight includes a fascinating close reading of Christine de Pizan’s allegorical Treasury of the City of Ladies (1404 or 1405), which portrays queens as ‘more than just an object in a marriage exchange’ (p. 194). For Earenfight, de Pizan demonstrates that a queen could ‘play an active role in the pursuit of peace, as an intercessor ...
May 28, 2024 · In the British Library, there is a manuscript of the 15th-century French-Italian poet Christine de Pizan. De Pizan wrote The Book of the City of Ladies which imagines a city where women could be safe from men to pursue their own aims.
3 days ago · Italian-French writer Christine de Pizan (1364 – c. 1430), the author of The Book of the City of Ladies and Epître au Dieu d'Amour (Epistle to the God of Love) is cited by Simone de Beauvoir as the first woman to denounce misogyny and write about the relation of the sexes.
4 days ago · The first woman to earn a living through her writing is thought to be the late Medieval writer Christine de Pizan, who started writing in part out of necessity — she was a widowed mother of three, left with no inheritance or income — and who also wrote the first work written by a woman, in praise of women, and against the belief that they ...
May 25, 2024 · Christine de Pizan (1364–ca 1430) was a prolific humanist writer with a striking ability to cut across specialised discourses and target a variety of audiences, comfortably moving from the literary domain of fiction through to politics and law.
