Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women
Subtitle: Reading beyond Gender (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 18, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521537742
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Fiction - General; French; United Kingdom, Great Britain; General; Fiction / General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Belles Lettres; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In order to undertake a defence of women against the misogynist tradition and to construct an authoritative discursive position from which to mount such a defence, Christine de Pizan first had to take a stand against the text which, by end of the fourteenth century, had firmly established itself as the vernacular authority on misogyny: Jean de Meung's Rose.