Medievalists.net » Christine de Pizan http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Christine de Pizan on Business Ethics http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/06/christine-de-pizan-on-business-ethics/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/06/christine-de-pizan-on-business-ethics/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:26:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=63051 May God keep them rich, honourable and worthy of trust!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/06/christine-de-pizan-on-business-ethics/feed/ 0 Christine de Pizan: A Feminist Way to Learning http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/08/christine-de-pizan-feminist-way-learning/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/08/christine-de-pizan-feminist-way-learning/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2014 20:30:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48134 Why this discrepancy between the views of modern critics such as Gaston Paris, Arturo Farinelli, Henri Hauvette, and Marie-Joseph Pinet, who disparage the work, and the praise given it by Christine's contemporaries?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/08/christine-de-pizan-feminist-way-learning/feed/ 0 Decentering history: local stories and cultural crossing in a global world http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/09/decentering-history-local-stories-and-cultural-crossing-in-a-global-world/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/09/decentering-history-local-stories-and-cultural-crossing-in-a-global-world/#comments Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:37:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45649 Natalie Zemon Davis' lecture at the 2010 Ludwig Holberg Prize Symposium

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/09/decentering-history-local-stories-and-cultural-crossing-in-a-global-world/feed/ 0 The Voices of Counsel: Women and Civic Rhetoric in the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/11/the-voices-of-counsel-women-and-civic-rhetoric-in-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/11/the-voices-of-counsel-women-and-civic-rhetoric-in-the-middle-ages/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:23:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40395 A full discussion of women’s civic rhetoric in the Middle Ages has been somewhat obfuscated for two reasons: persistent generalities about women’s roles, and generalities about the nature of the civic itself in the Middle Ages.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/11/the-voices-of-counsel-women-and-civic-rhetoric-in-the-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Interpreting Warfare and Knighthood in Late Medieval France: Writers and Their Sources in the Reign of King Charles VI (1380-1422) http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/interpreting-warfare-and-knighthood-in-late-medieval-france-writers-and-their-sources-in-the-reign-of-king-charles-vi-1380-1422/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/interpreting-warfare-and-knighthood-in-late-medieval-france-writers-and-their-sources-in-the-reign-of-king-charles-vi-1380-1422/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:40:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39725 Romances provided the basis of a particular kind of view of knighthood and warfare that was very influential on other literature concerning knights and warfare, as much as it was on real life practices and attitudes.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/interpreting-warfare-and-knighthood-in-late-medieval-france-writers-and-their-sources-in-the-reign-of-king-charles-vi-1380-1422/feed/ 0 Christine de Pizan in her study http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/20/christine-de-pizan-in-her-study/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/20/christine-de-pizan-in-her-study/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 04:01:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38833 By the time Christine began the Cité des dames which she completed in 1405 she stated firmly that it had become the “habit of my life” to study literature (in which she included history) and as usual she was sitting in her cell. But how did this become such a habit?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/20/christine-de-pizan-in-her-study/feed/ 0 Medieval Feminine Humanism and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Presentation of the Anti-Cecilia http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/medieval-feminine-humanism-and-geoffrey-chaucers-presentation-of-the-anti-cecilia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/medieval-feminine-humanism-and-geoffrey-chaucers-presentation-of-the-anti-cecilia/#comments Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:56:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37378 Perhaps the tale has been dismissed because, compared to the other tales, it appears to be simple and straightforward. Lynn Staley Johnson points out that “most Chaucerians hold that this legend could not have been written before about 1373” and further that “it is generally accepted that Chaucer decided to include the legend in the Canterbury book relatively late in the Canterbury period” .

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/medieval-feminine-humanism-and-geoffrey-chaucers-presentation-of-the-anti-cecilia/feed/ 0 How to be a Man, Though Female: Changing Sex in Medieval Romance http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/12/how-to-be-a-man-though-female-changing-sex-in-medieval-romance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/12/how-to-be-a-man-though-female-changing-sex-in-medieval-romance/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:15:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37056 Gender participates in a series of taxonomies that structure the social order, and it therefore participates in processes beyond itself, such as Christianity and knighthood, which are equally about identity within the world of chivalric romance. Therefore, the inscription of one often helps to define the other.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/12/how-to-be-a-man-though-female-changing-sex-in-medieval-romance/feed/ 0 “The King’s Library: Construction, Representation and Reception of the Ideal Kingship in the Late French Middle Ages” http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/06/the-kings-library-construction-representation-and-reception-of-the-ideal-kingship-in-the-late-french-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/06/the-kings-library-construction-representation-and-reception-of-the-ideal-kingship-in-the-late-french-middle-ages/#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:52:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36273 This paper on Charles V of France and his contribution to education was given on October 5th, 2012 as part of a workshop between Freiburg and the University of Toronto.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/06/the-kings-library-construction-representation-and-reception-of-the-ideal-kingship-in-the-late-french-middle-ages/feed/ 0 “Doulce chose est que mariage”: Exemplarity and Advice in the Works of Christine de Pizan http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/29/doulce-chose-est-que-mariage-exemplarity-and-advice-in-the-works-of-christine-de-pizan/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/29/doulce-chose-est-que-mariage-exemplarity-and-advice-in-the-works-of-christine-de-pizan/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:00:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35223 I first examine the autobiographical elements of Christine's works that highlight her personal marital experience. Christine draws authority from her first-hand knowledge of marriage, which supersedes the flawed assumptions of scholars lacking this life experience.

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