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Christine de Pizan

Autor/a de CIUTAT DE LES DAMES, LA

45+ obres 2,944 Membres 25 Ressenyes 6 preferits

Sobre l'autor

Crèdit de la imatge: Christine de Pizan lecturing men. http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/winter_2010/endnotes/an-educated-lady.html

Obres de Christine de Pizan

CIUTAT DE LES DAMES, LA (1405) 1,442 exemplars
The City of Ladies (2005) 270 exemplars
The Book of the Body Politic (1977) 45 exemplars
De lange weg der studie (2000) 18 exemplars
The Book of Peace (1414) 7 exemplars
Poésies d'Amour (2005) 3 exemplars
A Giovanna d'Arco (1429) 2 exemplars
Ecrire d'amour, parler de soi (2023) 2 exemplars
Boken om damenes by (2013) 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Essential Feminist Reader (2007) — Col·laborador — 316 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Women Poets (1978) — Col·laborador — 297 exemplars
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Col·laborador — 201 exemplars
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (1990) — Col·laborador — 168 exemplars
Masters of British Literature, Volume A (2007) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars

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Altres noms
Pisan, Christine de
Pizan, Christine de
Data de naixement
1365
Data de defunció
1431
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
Republic of Venice (birth)
France
País (per posar en el mapa)
France
Lloc de naixement
Venice, Italy
Lloc de defunció
Poissy, France
Llocs de residència
Venice, Italy (birth)
Paris, France
Professions
poet
composer
biographer
Relacions
Castel, Jean (son)
Biografia breu
Christine de Pizan was born in the Republic of Venice, in present-day Italy. Her father Tommaso di Benvenuto da Pizzano was a scholar, physician, and astrologer who encouraged her education. Her mother's name is unknown, but it is believed that she came from an aristocratic family. When Christine was four years old, the family moved to Paris, France, where her father was appointed court astrologer to King Charles V.

She was drawn to literature at an early age, but this was discouraged by her mother, who wanted her to concentrate on so-called women's work, such as spinning cloth and other domestic chores. In 1378, at about age 15, she was married to the French court secretary, Etienne du Castel, with whom she had three children. Ten years later, her father and then her husband died suddenly, leaving debts, and Christine had sole responsibility for the care of three children, her niece, and her mother.

She began writing poetry to make herself feel better, but eventually became the first female professional writer of the Middle Ages. She was able to win the support of wealthy and noble patrons who enjoyed her poems, ballads, and prose, and also gave her commissions.

In her work, she was unusually outspoken in her belief that women were the equals of men in every regard and should be given the same rights, opportunities, and respect. Her most important work, La cité des dames (The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405) was written to combat the sexist attitudes and negative stereotypes about women in her era. Although medieval women were not supposed to express their ideas or be independent, Christine de Pizan managed to do both successfully.

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This was an amazing primary source from Western Europe's first professional woman author.

An alternate title could be "Lean In for Princesses." Christine wants you to be good, but she also wants you to be smart. On the surface, she is a grumpy moralizer, but a close reading shows she believes deeply in women's abilities and intelligence and wants them to succeed in a world that's rigged against them. She wants women to protect themselves by being on their best behavior, even if she recognizes these standards of behavior are unfair.

Lots of great details about the everyday lives of powerful women in late medieval Europe. Alas, despite purporting to speak to "all women," Christine has much less to say to people at the bottom, and her advice is deeply classist: but this is not surprising.
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raschneid | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Dec 19, 2023 |
The City of Ladies fits with Divine Comedy in the medieval burn book category. The structure is that of three allegorical women building a city for all good women to live within, but it’s a literary device to display the moral and intellectual goodness of women by bringing up a bunch of examples. The rhetorical device is actually incredibly similar to Dante's, where the narrator is a character with the name of the author who debases themselves to the guides, in this case female embodiments of Reason, Rectitude and Justice. This edition abbreviated some of the sections, but from what’s still there, my guess is that some of the additional examples were removed after one establishing one.
I found this one oddly inspirational. It’s described as an early feminist work, which is funny because it’s so basic, in terms of feminism, but I suppose that’s what you’re up to as a feminist in the fourteenth century. Arguments to support the ideas that, for example, women are not stupid, women can learn, women are not fickle or nagging or loose or morally inferior.
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et.carole | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jul 13, 2022 |
Considering this is written in 1405, Miss Christine can be quite savvy and forward-thinking. She often advocates tactics that today can be attributed to modern spin and public relations. This is an advice book for women from the first European professional female writer. It's an revealing window into the world of mostly upper class women in this time period, and things are not cut and dry. One of the strategies most advocated involves striking a happy medium.

Some of the advice, though not intended in this way, is simply precious. One of my favorites: A lady should not "use pilgrimages as an excuse to get away from the town in order to go somewhere to play about or kick up her heels in some merry company.... Nor should she go gadding around the town with young women..." This and other admonitions like it are balanced again strategies that suggest more power and wiggle room than one would think.

It's an informative look at Medieval upper and lower class as well as gender relations, and not always what I expected. She includes advice on how to handle military tactics, when it is okay to lie to your husband, how to keep from being swindled, and how to deal with a morally loose woman (especially when that woman is your lady employer). At times it is surprisingly contemporary. That the author had the conviction and authority to write it is a form of agency in itself.
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irrelephant | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | Feb 21, 2021 |

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Obres
45
També de
6
Membres
2,944
Popularitat
#8,685
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
25
ISBN
118
Llengües
11
Preferit
6

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