Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan

Name: Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan
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ISBN: 9780393970104

ISBN-10: 0393970108

ISBN-13: 9780393970104

Edition: 1997

Authors: Christine de Pizan, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Kevin Brownlee

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Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1421) is Europe's first professional woman writer. She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres, including lyric poetry, allegorical dream visions, history, political treatises, and biography. This Norton Critical Edition presents selections from eighteen of Christine's major works in fresh, contemporary translations. Each text is fully annotated and is accompanied by an introduction placing it in the context of Christine's oeuvre and tracing the literary developments and the historical situation of the period. The Book of Fortune's Transformation and The Book of the City of Ladies include manuscript illuminations. "Criticism" collects seven…

Book details

List price: $10.50
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.40" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English