The Vision of Christine de Pizan

Name: The Vision of Christine de Pizan
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By Glenda Mcleod

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Christine de Pizan's 'The Vision' is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry V's invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the author's own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found itself in 1405, and offers a possible future, calling for its resolution in the voice of a prophet. Alongside her documentation of the difficulties faced by a medieval woman left widowed early in life, she also explores issues of gender and authorship, interpretation and misinterpretation in her remarkable career as a writer and advisor of princes.
Glenda McLeod is Professor Emerita, Gainesville State College; Charity Cannon Willard was Professor Emerita, Ladycliff College.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 200
Release Date:: 2012-03-15
Publication Date:: 2012-03-15
Publisher:: D.S.Brewer
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 184384298X
ISBN13:: 9781843842989
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 259 g
Height:: 140 cm
Width:: 216 cm
Thickness:: 11 cm

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