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The Vision of Christine de Pizan (Paperback)
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The Vision of Christine de Pizan (Paperback)
Series: Library of Medieval Women
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Translation of Christine's autobiographical Vision, both dealing
with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to
the troubled state of France at the time. Christine de Pizan's The
Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that
would eventually precipitate Henry V's invasion of France, and a
fascinating view of the author's own progress as a woman reader,
writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a
long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the
origins of the civil strife in which France found itself in 1405,
and offers a possible future, callingfor its resolution in the
voice of a prophet. Alongside her documentation of the difficulties
faced by a medieval woman left widowed early in life, she also
explores issues of gender and authorship, interpretation and
misinterpretation in her remarkable career as a writer and advisor
of princes. Glenda McLeod is Professor Emerita, Gainesville State
College; Charity Cannon Willard was Professor Emerita, Ladycliff
College.
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