Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading Beyond Gender(Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes that dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defense of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts. This study shows that Christine's case for women nonethele