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The Vision of Christine de Pizan

The Vision of Christine de Pizan

McLeod, Glenda
Willard, Charity Cannon

Paperback

Series: Library of Medieval Women

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 184384298X
ISBN13: 9781843842989
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: Mar 15 2012
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

Christine de Pizan's The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry V's invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the author's own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found itself in 1405, and offers a possible future, callingfor its resolution in the voice of a prophet. Alongside her documentation of the difficulties faced by a medieval woman left widowed early in life, she also explores issues of gender and authorship, interpretation and misinterpretation in her remarkable career as a writer and advisor of princes.

Glenda McLeod is Professor Emerita, Gainesville State College; Charity Cannon Willard was Professor Emerita, Ladycliff College.

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