Christine de Pisan

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.

Bibliography

• The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405)
• The Treasure of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405)
• 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 (i.e., The Tale of Joan of Arc) (1429) - Perhaps the only literary work about Jeanne d'Arc written during her life.

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