Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-286) and index.
Contents:
Christine de Pizan and the political life in late Medieval France / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski -- Christine de Pizan as translator and voice of the body politic / Lori J. Walters -- Somewhere between destructive glosses and chaos: Christine de Pizan and Medieval theology / Earl Jeffrey Richards -- Christine de Pizan: memory's architect / Margarete Zimmermann -- Christine de Pizan as a defender of women / Rosalind Brown-Grant -- Christine's treasure: Women's honor and household economies in the Livre des trios vertus / Roberta L. Krueger -- Who's a heroine? The example of Christine de Pizan / Thelma Fenster -- Le Livre de la citeĢ des dames: reconfiguring knowledge and reimagining gendered space / Judith Kellogg -- Christine's writings: love as metaphor in Christine de Pizan's Ballade cycles / Tracy Adams -- The Querelle de la rose and the ethics of reading / Marilyn Desmond -- The lessons of experience and the Chemin de long estude / Andrea Tarnowski -- The Livre de l'advision Cristine / Liliane Dulac and Christine Reno -- 'Nous deffens de feu de pestilence, de guerres': Christine de Pizan's religious works / Maureen Boulton -- Christine and the manuscript tradition / James Laidlaw -- Modern editions: makers of the Christinian corpus / Nadia Margolis.
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