An edition of Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women (1999)
Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women
Reading beyond Gender (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
By Rosalind Brown-Grant
Publish Date
January 28, 2000
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
eng
Pages
240
Description:
"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.