The Roman De La Rose and the Thirteenth Century Prohibitions of Homosexuality
This paper, a tentative approach by someone who is not an expert in this area or on this text, argues that Guillaume de Lorris offers a veiled description of a male to male love relationship.
Christine de Pizan and Jean Gerson on the Body Politic: The Limits of Intellectual Influence?
The present paper represents a small attempt to test competing hypotheses about the substance of the intellectual friendship between Christine and Jean by examining one overlapping theme in their respective body of writings: the organic metaphor between the human body and the political community.
Christine de Pizan’s Enseignemens moraux: Good Advice for Several Generations
Christine de Pizan’s Enseignemens moraux: Good Advice for Several Generations Reno, Christine (VASSAR COLLEGE) Christine de Pisan: The Making of the Queen’s Manuscript (2005)…
Women in Construction: An Early Historical Perspective
Numerous city records provide examples of women working with their fathers and husbands in the building trades as masons, carpenters, doormakers, and others crafts in 13th, 14th , and 15th centuries France, Spain and Germany.
Women Scientists of the Middle Ages and 1600s
Therefore, it is all the more remarkable that history yields to us several outstanding women of the Middle Ages and 1600s whose accomplishments in the fields of science and writing are still recognized today as valid and significant.
Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies: A Monumental (Re)construction of, by, and for Women of All Time
Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies: A Monumental (Re)construction of, by, and for Women ofAll Time Wagner, Jill E. Medieval Feminist Forum, 44, no. 1…
Christine de Pizan’s Advice to Prostitutes
In late medieval Paris, prostitutes were everywhere, it seems. Looking at the map published in Bronislaw Geremek’s study of the margins of medieval society we get the impression that prostitutes were in fact not marginal at all, at least as far as their locations are concerned.
A Medieval Gateway to Feminist Education: Christine de Pizan’s Subversive Revision of Boccaccio
A Medieval Gateway to Feminist Education: Christine de Pizan’s Subversive Revision of Boccaccio Kivilcim Yavuz (İSTANBUL BİLGİ UNIVERSITY, TURKEY) Paper given at…
Christine de Pizan and the Querelle de la Rose: Combating Misogyny with Morality
Christine de Pizan and the Querelle de la Rose: Combating Misogyny with Morality By Margaret E. Loebe Honors Journal (2006) Introduction: Christine de…
Christine de Pizan: A Fifteenth Century Champion of Women
Despite the obstacles faced by women in the late medieval period, one woman without recognized public authority created her own authority and wielded power in a significant way. That woman was Christine de Pizan.
A Woman in the Mind’s Eye (and not): Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer’s Clerks’s Tale and in Two Analogues
A Woman in the Mind’s Eye (and not): Narrators and Gazes in Chaucer’s Clerks’s Tale and in Two Analogues By Robin Waugh Philological…
The Sibylline voices of Christine de Pizan
The Sibyl’s importance as an authorizing figure in Christine de Pizan’s oeuvre is widely acknowledged but universally under-estimated.