Christine DE PISAN (c.1364–c.1431) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... DE PISAN ( c. 1364– c. 1431 ) French poet and scholar, born in Venice. She is best known for her feminist works, including the Epistre au dieu d'amours ( 1399 : Epistle to the God of Love ), an eloquent denunciation of the anti‐feminist attitudes of Jean de Meun ( see Roman de la Rose ), La Cité des dames ( 1404–5 : The City of Ladies ), in which she constructs an ideal city peopled by the great women of history and legend, and Le Livre des trois vertus ( 1405 : The Book of the Three Virtues ), which explores women's duties. A number of...
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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
...her interest in ancient stories is characteristic of the older ‘medieval humanism ’. Roy, Maurice (1986–96) (ed.), Oeuvres poétiques de Christine de Pizan , 3 vols. (Paris); Curnow, Maureen (1975) (ed.), The Livre de la cité des dames of Christine de Pisan (Nashville, Tenn.); Richards, Earl Jeffrey (1983) (trans.), Christine de Pizan The Book of the City of Ladies (London); Willard Charity C. (1984), Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works (New...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... De Pisan ( c. 1364– c. 1431 ) French poet and scholar , born in Venice, and considered to be the first woman of letters in France. Author of courtly ballades and rondeaux, she is best known for her feminist works, including the Epistre au dieu d'amours ( 1399 : Epistle to the God of Love ), an eloquent denunciation of the anti‐feminist attitudes of Jean de Meun ( see Roman de la Rose ), La Cité des dames ( 1404–5 : The City of Ladies ), in which she constructs an ideal city peopled by the great women of history and legend, and Le Livre...
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Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8 ed.)
...Christine Christine de Pisan 1364 – c. 1430 Italian writer , resident in France from 1369 Where true love is, it showeth; it will not feign. ‘The Epistle of Othea to Hector’ true love is, it showeth true love is, it showeth it will not ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... de Pizan (Pisan) ( 1364–1430 ) Formerly disregarded and even reviled as a bluestocking, she is now the most widely studied medieval French author , partly for her contribution to the prehistory of feminism, and as a thinker and public intellectual. Born in *Italy , Christine was the daughter of Thomas de Pizan , astronomer and physician at the court of *Charles V of *France . Her happy marriage to Estienne du Castel ended tragically with his premature death; financially embarrassed, she began writing c .1393 in order to support her...
Christine de Pisan
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The Oxford Companion to the Book
...9 th -century Chanson de Roland , which began to be written down in the early 11 th century. Of the five verse novels of Chrétien de Troyes ( fl . 1170–85 ), the most important writer of his age, there are no MSS before 1200 . As early as the 13 th century, the most widely disseminated French work was the allegorical, didactic Roman de la Rose (first part c .1230 , second part c .1270 ): about 250 complete copies are preserved. Troubadour poems started being collected only during the 14 th century. By then, Christine de Pisan, the first real woman of...
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