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Title: Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women : Reading beyond Gender by Rosalind Brown-Grant, Alastair Minnis ISBN: 0-521-64194-2 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $70.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: who reads middle French?
Comment: Rosalind Brown-Grant is one of the leading authorities on Christine de Pizan, and this is evident in this book. Unfortunately, the book is written for other authorities on Christine de Pizan. Most of the main points that Brown-Grant attempts to make are illustrated in the words of Christine...in the original French. If you speak modern French you'll probably be able to get by, but if not it's pretty inpossible to use this book as a viable source. Brown-Grant did a good job translating The Book of the City of Ladies, why couldn't she do the same for this book?

Rating: 5
Summary: The Cambridge University Press Description plus Comments
Comment: Here's what Cambridge Univ. Press has to say about this book: "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. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cité in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts. Arguing that Christine tailored her critique of misogyny according to the genre in which she was writing and the audience she was addressing, this study shows that Christine's case for women nonetheless had an underlying unity in its insistence on the moral, if not the social equality of the sexes. Whilst Christine may not have been a radical in modern feminist terms, she was able to draw upon the cultural resources of her day in order to construct an intellectual authority for herself that challenged the prevailing orthodoxy of the day."

Christine di Pizan is widely acclaimed as the first woman feminist in the Western World. She began her defense of women in her "Epistres du debat sur le Roman de la Rose" and continued it in "Livre de la Cit des Dames". An excellent study of the feminist implications of Christine di Pizan's work in the context of medieval European scholarship.