Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women
Subtitle: Reading beyond Gender (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780521641944
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Poetry & poets; Women Authors; Medieval Church (476-1517); Religion And Art; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Belles Lettres; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Women Authors; Women's studies
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.