Christine de Pizan

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The "Livre de la Paix" of Christine de Pisan: A Critical Edition (includes the text of "Livre de la Paix" in French and criticism in English)
by Charity Cannon Willard. 220 pgs.

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Introduction

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II: The Historical Background

III: Christine De Pisan and the Duke of Guyenne

IV: Analysis of the Text

V: The Sources

VI: The Manuscripts

VII: Language and Style

VIII: Conclusion

Le Livre De La Paix

Notes

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Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender
by Rosalind Brown-Grant. 224 pgs.

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Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes that dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defense 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.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: The 'Querelle De La “rose”': Christine's Critique of Misogynist Doctrine and Literary Practice

Chapter 2: The 'Epistre Othéa': an Ethical and Allegorical Alternative to the 'Roman De La Rose'?

Chapter 3: The 'Avision-Christine': a Female Exemplar for the Princely Reader

Chapter 4: The 'Livre De La Cité Des Dames': Generic Transformation and the Moral Defence of Women

Chapter 5: The 'Livre Des Trois Vertus': a Betrayal of the 'Cité'?

Conclusion

Index
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Rediscovering Women Philosophers: Philosophical Genre and the Boundaries of Philosophy (includes Chap. 3 "Allegory and Moral Philosophy in Christine de Pisan's The Book of the City of Ladies")
by Catherine Villanueva Gardner. 202 pgs.

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Catherine Villanueva Gardner is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan at Flint.

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Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

Notes

2: Catharine Macaulay's Letters on Education: What Constitutes A Philosophical System

Conclusion

3: Allegory and Moral Philosophy In Christine De Pisan's The Book of the City of Ladies

Conclusion

4: Mary Wollstonecraft and The Separation of Poetry and Politics

Conclusion

5: George Eliot And How to Read Novels As Philosophy

Conclusion

6: Knowing and Speaking Of Divine Love: Mechthild of Magdeburg

Conclusion: Contingencies

7: Conclusion

Notes

References

Index
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Building the Ideal City: Female Memorial Praxis in Christine de Pizan's Cite des Dames, in Studies in the Literary Imagination
by Betsy Mccormick. 24 pgs.

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"Femme de Corps et Femme Par Sens": Christine de Pizan's Saintly Women, in The Romanic Review
by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. 19 pgs.

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Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (includes Chap. 4 "Rejecting Essentialism and Gendered Writing: The Case of Christine de Pizan" and Chap. 6 "Rewriting Romance: Courtly Discourse and Auto-Citation in Christine de Pizan")
by Jane Chance. 342 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Selected Women Authors, 8th-15th Centuries

Introduction

Works Cited

Part I: M/F: Authority, Domination, Misogyny

1: Muliebriter: Doing Gender in the Letters of Heloise

Notes

Bibliography

2: The Use of Gender and Gender-Related Imagery in Hadewijch

Notes

Bibliography

3: Gender and Prophetic Authority in Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations

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4: Rejecting Essentialism and Gendered Writing: the Case of Christine De Pizan

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Part II: Autohagiography and Self-Mimesis: The Construction of Female Subjectivity

5: Marie De France and the Body Poetic

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6: Rewriting Romance: Courtly Discourse and Auto-Citation in Christine De Pizan

Notes

Works Cited

7: A Very Material Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe

Notes

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8: Autohagiography and Medieval Women's Spiritual Autobiograpby

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Part III: Speaking the Body: Transhumanization and Subversion

9: On the (representability) of Woman's Pleasure: Angela of Foligno and Jacques Lacan

Notes

Bibliography

10: "God Fulfylled My Bodye": Body, Self, and God in Julian of Norwich

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Selected Bibliography

II: Writing (in) Fear

Notes

Works Cited

12: The Discourse of Ecstasy: Late Medieval Spanish Women and Their Texts

Notes

Works Cited

Contributors

Index
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Women's Writing in Middle English (includes Chap. 9 "Christine de Pisan")
by Alexandra Barratt. 328 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Chronology

Editorial Procedure

Introduction

The Texts

1: Middle English Trotula Texts

The Fourteenth Century and Earlier

2: Marie De France

3: Mechtild of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great

4: Marguerite Porete

5: Elizabeth of Hungary

Bridget of Sweden

7: Catherine of Siena

8: Julian of Norwich

The Fifteenth Century

9: Christine De Pisan

10: A Revelation of Purgatory

11: Margery Kempe

12: A Collection of Prayers

13: Dame Eleanor Hull

14: Juliana Berners

15: Some Paston Letters

16: Fifteentli- and Early Sixteenffi-Century Poems

17: Lady Margaret Beaufort

Bibliography

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Violence against Women in Medieval Texts (includes Chap. 8 "Gender Subversion and Linguistic Castration in Fifteenth-Century Translations of Christine de Pizan")
by Anna Roberts. 258 pgs.

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This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents. In its use of well-known authors (Chaucer and Christine de Pizan) and lesser-known writers, this collection provides a rich and useful survey for researchers in women's studies and medieval literature.

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Introduction Violence Against Women and the Habits of Thought

Notes

1: The Violence of Exegesis: Reading the Bodies of Ælfric's Female Saints

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2: Women, Power, and Violence in Orderic Vitatis's Historia Ecclesiastica

Notes

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3: The Mont St. Michel Giant Sexual Violence and Imperialism in the Chronicles of Wace and Laʓamon

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4: Consuming Passions Variations on the Eaten Heart Theme

Notes

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5: The Rhetoric of Incest in the Middle English Emaré

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6: "Quiting" Eve: Violence Against Women in the Canterbury Tales

Notes

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7: Rivalry, Rape, and Manhood: Gower and Chaucer

Notes

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8: Gender Subversion and Linguistic Castration in Fifteenth-Century English Translations of Christine De Pizan

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9: Domesticating the Spanish Inquisition

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10: Violence, Silence, and the Memory of Witches

Notes

Works Cited

Contributors

Index
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Widowhood, Sexuality, and Gender in Christine de Pizan, in The Romanic Review
by Kevin Brownlee. 15 pgs.

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Flaming Words: Verbal Violence and Gender in Premodern Paris, in The Romanic Review
by Helen Solterer. 24 pgs.

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The Editor and the Text (includes Chap. 7 "Editing Christine de Pizan's Epistre A La Reine")
by Philip E. Bennett, Graham A. Runnalls. 178 pgs.

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Introduction

Bibliography of Professor Anthony J. Holden

1. ProblÈmes De PalÉographie Et De Philologie Dans L'Édition Des Textes FranÇais Du Moyen Âge

Références

2. Editing Le Bel Inconnu and Other Single-Manuscript Texts

Referexces

3. the Transmission of the Lyric Lais in Old French Chansonnier T

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4. on the Variants, and Their Presentation, in Scholarly Editions of the Roman De Renart

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5 Syntactic Variables and the Authorship of Renart Ii-Va

Introduction

Conclusion

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6. Some Remarks on the Cambridge Manuscript of the Rhymed Roland

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7. Editing Christine De Pizan's Epistre a La Reine

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8. How Long is the Livre Du Chemin De Long Estude?

Dedication

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9. Towards a Typology of Medieval French Play Manuscripts

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10. Jeter De La Poudre Aux Yeux

11. La Grant Ewe Del Flum: Toponymy and Text in Le PÈlerinage De Charlemagne

Acknowledgements

References

12. Del Graal Cui L'An an Servoit: Variations Sur UN Pronom

Références

13. an Anglo-Norman Medical Treatise

References

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Changing Identities in Early Modern France (includes "Identity Politics and Rulership in France: Female Political Place and the Fraudulent Salic Law in Christine de Pizan and Jean de Montreuil" on pg. 78)
by Michael Wolfe. 414 pgs.

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Michael Wolfe: Introduction: Becoming French in Early Modern Europe

I: Ideologies and Institutions

J. H. M. Salmon: The French Romantics and the Renaissance

Making History: Ceremonial Texts, Royal Space, and Political Theory in the Sixteenth Century

Identity Politics and Rulership in France: Female Political Place and the Fraudulent Salic Law in Christine de Pizan and Jean de Montreuil

The Birth of the Nobility of the Robe: Dignity versus Privilege in the Parlement of Paris, 1500-1700

Noblewomen and War in Sixteenth-Century France

II: Dissent and Deviance

Religion, Gender, and Class: Nuns and Authority in Early Modern France

An Age of Gold? Parisian Women, the Holy League, and the Roots of Catholic Renewal

A Woman and the Devil: Possession and Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century France

Satan in Europe: The Geography of Witch Hunts

Anatomy of an Infanticide Trial: The Case of Marie-Jeanne Bartonnet (1742)

III: Identities in Flux

Donald R. Kelley: New World, Old Historiography

Montaigne and the Discovery of the Ordinary

An Intellectual in Politics: Montaigne as Mayor of Bordeaux

Villegagnon, Polyphemus, and Cain of America: Religion and Polemics in the French New World

Burgundians into Frenchmen: Catholic Identity in Sixteenth-Century Burgundy

Protestant Reactions to the Conversion of Henry IV

Index

Contributors
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The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (includes "Christine de Pizan as Chivalric Mythographer: L'Epistre Othea" on pg. 100 and "Christine de Pizan and the Judgment of Paris: A Court Poet's Use of Mythographic Tradition" on pg. 125)
by Jane Chance. 336 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

The Medieval "Apology for Poetry": Fabulous Narrative and Stories of the Gods

Part I. Early France: The Mythographer and the Poet

From Mirror to Metamorphosis: Echoes of Ovid's Narcissus In Chrétien's Erec Et Enide

Sources, Nature, and Influence of The Ovidius Moralizatus of Pierre Bersuire

Christine De Pizan as Chivalric Mythographer: L'Epistre Othea

Christine De Pizan and the Judgment of Paris: A Court Poet's Use of Mythographic Tradition

Part Ii. Early England: Chaucer and the Mythographers

Pallas Athena and the Threefold Choice In Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Chaucer's Zephirus: Dante's Zefiro, St. Dominic, and The Idea of the General Prologue

Mercury in the Garden: Mythographical Methods in The Merchant's Tale and Decameron 7.9

From Knossos to Knight's Tale: The Changing Face of Chaucer's Theseus

Part Iii. Renaissance England: Shakespeare and the Mythographers

The Comedy of Love: The Medieval Venus and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

Hercules in the Mind: Mythographic Tradition and The References in Hamlet

Sandys, Ovid, and Female Chastity: The Encyclopedic Mythographer as Moralist

Part Iv. Bibliographic Epilogue

Eleven Unpublished Commentaries on Ovid's Metamorphoses and Two Other Texts Of Mythographic Interest: Some Comments on a Bibliography

Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre (includes "Seulette a Part- The Little Woman on the Sidelines Takes Up Her Pen: The Letters of Christine de Pizan" on pg. 139)
by Karen Cherewatuk, Ulrike Wiethaus. 222 pgs.

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Introduction: Women Writing Letters In The Middle Ages

Radegund and Epistolary Tradition

Visions and Rhetorical Strategy In the Letters of Hildegard of Bingen

Wholly Guilty, Wholly Innocent: Self-Definition in Héloïses Letters To Abélard

Io Catarina: Ecclesiastical Politics And Oral Culture in the Letters of Catherine Of Siena

No Writing for Writing's Sake: The Language of Service and Household Rhetoric in the Letters of the Paston Women.

Seulette a Part -- the Little Woman On the Sidelines Takes Up Her Pen: The Letters of Christine De Pizan

If I Had an Iron Body: Femininity And Religion in the Letters of Maria De Hout

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Index

Contributors
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Renaissance Misogyny, Biblical Feminism, and Helisenne de Crenne's Epistres Familieres et Invectives, in Renaissance Quarterly
by Jerry C. Nash. 32 pgs.

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