Author: Christine (de Pisan)
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140449507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Glossary of names."--BOOK JACKET.
The Fifteenth-century Illustrations of Christine de Pizan's 'The Book of the City of Ladies; and 'The Treasure of the City of Ladies'
Author: Laura Rinaldi Dufresne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780773426276
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a detailed study of the illustrations in two important fifteenth century novels, The City and The Treasure. This book fills a gap in the scholarship by shifting the attention from their literary content to the imagery chosen to illustrate these two pioneering books on women and their worth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780773426276
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a detailed study of the illustrations in two important fifteenth century novels, The City and The Treasure. This book fills a gap in the scholarship by shifting the attention from their literary content to the imagery chosen to illustrate these two pioneering books on women and their worth.
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Author: Christine de Pizan
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141961015
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141961015
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
The Concept of Woman
Author: Prudence Allen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802833471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The culmination of a lifetime's scholarly work, this study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in Western thought from ancient times to the present. This volume is the second in her study, in which she explores claims about sex and gender identity in the works of over fifty philosophers (both men and women) in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802833471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The culmination of a lifetime's scholarly work, this study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in Western thought from ancient times to the present. This volume is the second in her study, in which she explores claims about sex and gender identity in the works of over fifty philosophers (both men and women) in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods.
Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing
Author: S. Jansen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023011881X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023011881X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be very small, a single room, for example, but many women writers are much more ambitious, fantasizing about cities, even entire countries, created for and inhabited exclusively by women.
The Vision of Christine de Pizan
Author: Christine (de Pisan)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843840588
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Translation of Christine's autobiographical "Vision", both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843840588
Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Translation of Christine's autobiographical "Vision", both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time.
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
Author: Judith M. Bennett
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191667293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed mainly by and about elite males, and how to combine social histories of lived experiences with cultural histories of gendered discourses and identities. The collection focuses on Western Europe in the Middle Ages but offers some consideration of medieval Islam and Byzantium. The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period. It contains material from some of the foremost scholars in this field, and it not only serves as the major reference text in medieval and gender studies, but also provides an agenda for future new research.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191667293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed mainly by and about elite males, and how to combine social histories of lived experiences with cultural histories of gendered discourses and identities. The collection focuses on Western Europe in the Middle Ages but offers some consideration of medieval Islam and Byzantium. The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period. It contains material from some of the foremost scholars in this field, and it not only serves as the major reference text in medieval and gender studies, but also provides an agenda for future new research.