Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women

Rosalind (University of Leeds) Brown-Grant

Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. This study shows the text's underlying unity and its insistence on the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes.

ISBN-13
9780521641944
ISBN-10
0521641942
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
Publication date
2000-01-28
Pages
244
Dimensions
161x236x23
Weight
516