Christine de Pizan and the moral defence of women :
[Book]
reading beyond gender /
Rosalind Brown-Grant
xiv, 224 pages ;
24 cm
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
40
Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xiv) and index
"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
Christine,approximately 1364-approximately 1431-- Criticism and interpretation