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Revision as of 11:54, 19 July 2010
Christine de Pisan (sometimes spelled Christine de Pizan) was a French poet and writer, best known in English for her The Book of the City of Ladies, a defense of women's nobility of spirit and need for education. Much of her writing was dedicated to rebutting contemporary misogyny in the literary establishment.
She also wrote
- Le Livre des trois vertus (1405, "Book of Three Virtues") setting out a series of moral guidelines for medieval women;
- L'Epistre au Dieu d'amours (1399, a letter to the god of love) a defense of women against Jean de Meun's satire in Roman de la Rose;
- Le Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (1429) - Perhaps the only literary work about Jeanne d'Arc written during her life.
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