Buch, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 236 g
Reihe: Library of Medieval Women
Buch, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 236 g
Reihe: Library of Medieval Women
ISBN: 978-1-84384-298-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
Translation of Christine's autobiographical Vision, both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time.
Christine de Pizan's The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry V's invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the author's own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found itself in 1405, and offers a possible future, callingfor its resolution in the voice of a prophet. Alongside her documentation of the difficulties faced by a medieval woman left widowed early in life, she also explores issues of gender and authorship, interpretation and misinterpretation in her remarkable career as a writer and advisor of princes.
Glenda McLeod is Professor Emerita, Gainesville State College; Charity Cannon Willard was Professor Emerita, Ladycliff College.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Mittel- & Neulateinische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
