Format:
1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:
9781000235661
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Political Significance of Christine de Pizan -- 3 Christine de Pizan: From Poet to Political Commentator -- 4 Polycracy, Obligation, and Revolt: The Body Politic in John of Salisbury and Christine de Pizan -- 5 Christine de Pizan and the Jews: Political and Poetic Implications -- 6 French Cultural Nationalism and Christian Universalism in the Works of Christine de Pizan -- 7 L'Avision Christine: Autobiographical Narrative or Mirror for the Prince? -- 8 Vox Femina, Vox Politica: The Lamentation sur les maux de la France -- 9 Authority in the Prose Treatises of Christine de Pizan: The Writer's Discourse and the Prince's Word -- 10 The Political Rhetoric of Christine de Pizan: Lamentation sur les maux de la guerre civile -- 11 The Subversive "Seulette -- 12 Christine de Pizan: "At Best a Contradictory Figure"? -- 13 History, Politics, and Christine Studies: A Polemical Reply -- 14 Identity and Difference in Christine de Pizan's Cité des Dames -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Book and Editor -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367299194
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367299194
Language:
English
