The Book of the City of Ladies
, by Pizan, Christine de (Author); Brown-Grant, Rosalind (Translator); Brown-Grant, Rosalind (Introduction by)
- ISBN: 9780140446890 | 0140446893
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/2000
'Philosophers, poets and orators too numerous to mention all speak with one voice and are unanimous in their view that female nature is wholly given up to vice.' It was this misogynist consensus that Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430), France's first professional woman of letters, confronted head-on in the City of Ladies. Here, with the help of Reason, Rectitude and Justice, Christine constructs an allegorical city in which to defend womankind, using examples of female virtue and achievement both from the past and her own day as the stones with which to build the city's walls and towers. A key text in the history of feminism, this book provides powerful, positive images of women and also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.
| Acknowledgements | v | ||||
| Introduction | xvi | ||||
| Translator's Note | xxxviii | ||||
| THE BOOK OF THE CITY OF LADIES | |||||
| PART I | |||||
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| PART II Here begins the second part of the Book of the City of Ladies which recounts how and by whom the houses and buildings were constructed inside the enclosure walls and how the City was filled with inhabitants | |||||
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| PART III Here begins the third part of the Book of the City of Ladies, which explains how and by whom the high turrets of the towers were finished off, and which noble ladies were chosen to dwell in the great palaces and lofty keeps | |||||
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| Notes | 241 | (3) | |||
| Glossary | 244 | (36) | |||
| Bibliography | 280 |
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