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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 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 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 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 · Ensuring that information is accurate is a priority they both share. This is accomplished by de Pizan through her past experiences with male writers and her strong feelings 11 Elizabeth Giancola, “Religion and Theology,” The Book of the Tenth Muse, 2005 10 Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, trans. Rosalind Brown-Grant, 19
2 days ago · Christine de Pizan, an early advocate for gender equality, states in her 1405 book The Book of the City of Ladies that the oppression of women is founded on irrational prejudice, pointing out numerous advances in society probably created by women.
1 day ago · In 1405, writer Christine de Pizan imagined building a City of Ladies, a place to remember and celebrate the ladies of the past, a nurturing haven for the ladies of the future. It’s 2024 and Polly and Morgan are imagining the same thing, populating their city with ladies they admire - but what does it mean to be a lady?
