The Book of the City of Ladies (English and French Edition) - Hardcover

De Pizan, Christine; Richards, Earl Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892550619 ISBN 13: 9780892550616

Publisher: Persea Books, 1982

Synopsis

A medieval French author considers why so many philosophers, speakers, and poets malign women, and defends feminine character, behavior, and accomplishments

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Christine de Pizan was born in 1365 in Venice. Her family moved to Paris three years later when her father was appointed court astrologer to King Charles V. Close ties to the royal court and her father's encouragement enabled Christine to obtain a good education, unusual for women of her time. At the age of fifteen, she married a court notary, who also fostered her learning and her literary activities. She was only twenty-five when she was widowed and left without an inheritance. With three children to support, Christine turned to writing to earn her living. From 1390 to 1429, the presumed year of her death, she wrote more than twenty works, nearly all concerned with two themes: the political life of France and the defense of women. The Book of the City of Ladies is Christine de Pizan's most eloquent expression of her feminist beliefs.

About the Author:

Christine de Pizan was an Italian French late medieval author. She served as a court writer for several dukes and the French royal court during the reign of Charles VI.

Natalie Zemon Davis is the author of several books, including The Return of Martin Guerre and Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives. Davis is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University and Adjunct Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. Davis lives in Toronto with her family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Persea Books
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0892550619
• ISBN 13: 9780892550616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 281