Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women

Auteur: Brown-Grant, Rosalind (University of Leeds)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. This study shows the text's underlying unity and its insistence on the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes.

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Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. This study shows the text's underlying unity and its insistence on the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes.
ISBN / EAN 9780521537742
Auteur Brown-Grant, Rosalind (University of Leeds)
Editeur Cambridge University Press