scholarly journals The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings Christine de Pizan. Translated by Ineke Hardy and edited by Sophie Bourgault and Rebecca Kingston. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 2018 (ISBN 13: 978-1-62466-729-9)

Hypatia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hockenbery
Keyword(s):  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Choreography of the Past: Accounting and the Writing of Christine de Pizan

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Miley ◽  
Andrew Read
Keyword(s):  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Budget Management ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
The Past ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Single Entry ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTThis research discusses The Treasure of the City of Ladies, a manuscript written by Christine de Pizan in France during the early 15th century to give guidance on account keeping and budgeting. Christine de Pizan was born in Italy but raised in the French royal court. Her manuscript gives the keeping of accounts and budget management a religious imperative. She describes them as functions where the three divine virtues of reason, rectitude, and justice are applied. Christine de Pizan describes how demonstrating these virtues through the proper keeping of accounts and budgets is a way to demonstrate love of God. Although historical accounting records show how accounting was done, this manuscript explains why it was done. In giving a rationale for single-entry bookkeeping and budgeting, the manuscript provides a source that prevents present-mindedness when attempting to undertake contemporary analyses of accounting records from this historical period.

Towards Feminism: Christine De Pizan, Female Advocacy, and Women’s Textual Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Krueger
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Romance Of The Rose ◽  
Early Modern Women ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Women's Literacy ◽  
Textual Communities ◽  
The City

Although "feminist" claims for full legal and political emancipation were nonexistent in the Middle Ages and women had restricted access to education, many elite women throughout Europe left eloquent written testimony of their intellectual and literary gifts. Some women explicitly took up the pen to defend women's honor against misogynistic attacks and to champion their contributions to society. This chapter focuses on the pro-feminine works of Christine de Pizan (1364–1430?), who not only engaged in an epistolary debate with male authorities denouncing the Romance of the Rose as antifeminist, but also wrote two works explicitly defending female virtue and promoting women's social well-being: The City of Ladies and The Treasure of the City of Ladies. Christine's work participated in the spread of women's literacy; her female advocacy anticipated arguments for women's education and critiques of marriage made by subsequent female humanists and early modern women writers in France, Italy, and England.

The City of Scholars: New Approaches to Christine de Pizan

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Keith Busby ◽  
Margarete Zimmermann ◽  
Dina De Rentiis
Keyword(s):  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The City

Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Cyte of Ladyes, trans. by Brian Anslay, ed. by Hope Johnston. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 457. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2014, lxiv, 622 pp., 10 b/w ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 431-431
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
The Other ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Renaissance Studies ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

On the one hand, this new edition, or rather translation, of Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) certainly deserves to be reviewed in Mediaevistik because Christine still falls squarely into the late Middle Ages. On the other, the publication date of this translation, 1521, places it certainly outside of that period. However, a translation is always an important mirror of the reception history, which proves to be particularly rich in Christine’s case. Brian Anslay’s English translation was the first and only one to appear in print (by Henry Pepwell), at least before the twentieth century. However, we know of twenty-seven surviving manuscripts, whereas there are only five copies of Anslay’s printed work available. It is worth noting that the issues addressed here by Christine, helping women to find their own realm and identity, was apparently of significance also for her male audience since Anslay was sponsored by Richard Grey, third earl of Kent.

Dante and the Medieval City

2020 ◽  
pp. 350-367
Author(s):  
David L. Pike
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Urban Representations ◽  
Francois Villon ◽  
A Site ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Heavenly City ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the paradox that the most sustained and influential literary representation of the medieval city is set in the afterlife. The chapter begins with a discussion of Dante’s reproduction of the vertical Christian cosmos within the horizontality of everyday life in the city. It then looks at the place of hell within this city, the types of urban experience represented within it, and the relationship of the infernal city to the heavenly city as which Dante figures paradise. The final section of the chapter surveys the dissemination of this urban model into the diverse cityscapes of Boccaccio, Chaucer, François Villon, and Christine de Pizan. The chapter concludes that late medieval urban representations are characterized by the growing insistence on the city as a site of representational difference and local autonomy that remains nevertheless deeply embedded in the spatial dynamics of verticality.

scholarly journals De disciple à mentor : le parcours exemplaire de Christine de Pizan

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Madeleine Jeay
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other World ◽  
Own Name ◽  
The City

From disciple to mentor, this is the path followed by Christine de Pizan. She begins to stage herself under the guidance of allegorical personifications such as the Cumaean Sibyl in Chemin de long estude (The Long Road of Learning), and Reason, Rectitude and Justice in the Livre de la Cité des Dames (The Book of the City of Ladies) et le Livre des trois Vertus (The Book of the Three Virtues). Then she assumes in her own name the role of mentor. The initiatory quest she undertakes in the first of these texts, refers to the well-known topos of the trip to the Other World under the guidance of an emblematic figure, represented by two major works that inspired her, Dante’s Divine Comedy and Virgil’s Aeneid.

scholarly journals Christine De Pisan and Murasaki Shikibu as Medieval Feminists

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
Harika Bashpinar
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Christine De Pizan ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christine De Pisan ◽  
Tale Of Genji ◽  
Murasaki Shikibu ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Interesting Reading

This study presents a comparative reading of Christine de Pizan’sThe Book of the City of Ladies and MurasakiShikibu’s The Tale of Genji. Having lived and written in the Middle Ages, both Christine de Pizan and MurasakiShikibu share the privilege of being among the first women writers as well as the first feminists. As their life stories picture them as strong, independent women unusual at that time, their works elaborate on the plight of their sex in a patriarchal and oppressive society, and propose ways to transcend these borders. What is striking in such a reading is that it makes the modern reader see that oppression on women has been existent since at least the Medieval Era, and it has been a case throughout the world. Since neither Pizan nor Shikibuknew the culture and works of the other, their attracting attention to the same issues suggests an interesting reading.

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