Christine de Pizan, Empowering Women in Text and Image

Charlotte Cooper-Davis

doi:10.2307/jj.7533916

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-64189-290-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-80270-149-4
Publisher: Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Series: Gender and Power in the Premodern World
Language: English
Pages: 176
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of contents No access
2. List of Illustrations No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Abbreviations No access
5. Note on Translation No access
1. Christine de Pizan, Gender, and Image No access
2. The Status of Imagery No access
3. Reading Text and Image No access
4. Women, Authority, and Power in the Middle Age No access
5. Christine de Pizan’s Construction as an Authority No access
6. Plan and Scope of this Study No access
1. 1. Authority and Portraiture No access
  2. Consistency and Diversity in Christine de Pizan’s Author-Portraits No access
  3. Christine de Pizan’s Collaboration with the City of Ladies Master No access
2. 1. The Symbolic Power of the Colour Blue No access
  2. Blue in the Works of Christine de Pizan No access
  3. The Direct Influence of Marian Iconography No access
  4. Marian Influence on Christine de Pizan’s Writings No access
3. Conclusion No access
1. The Queen’s Manuscript’s Women in Blue No access
2. Didactic Figures in Text and Image No access
3. 1. L’Epistre Othea No access
  2. La Mutacion de Fortune No access
  3. La Cité des dames No access
  4. Les Fais d’Armes et de Chevalerie No access
  5. Minerva, Multiplicity, and Power Dynamics No access
4. Conclusion No access
1. The Case for Reassessing Motherhood and Fatherhood No access
2. Cristine’s Parents No access
3. Nature and Fortune as Joint Mothers No access
4. Cristine’s Absent Father No access
5. Conclusion No access
1. 1. Le Chemin de Lonc Estude No access
  2. La Cité des dames No access
  3. Le Livre de l’epistre Othea No access
2. Three Diana Stories No access
3. Conclusion No access
Conclusion No access Pages 133 - 140
Christine de Pizan’s Illustrated Author-Manuscripts No access Pages 141 - 142
1. Manuscripts No access
2. 1. Primary Texts No access
  2. Secondary Material No access
3. Online Resources No access
Index No access Pages 157 - 164