Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference: Volume 14

by Marilynn Desmond

Establishes the place of this medieval writer within considerations of "difference."

Christine de Pizan, an Italian-born writer in French in the early fifteenth century, composed lyric poetry, debate poetry, political biography, and allegory. At times complicit, at times subversive, at times revisionary, her texts constantly negotiate the hierarchical and repressive discourses of late medieval court culture. How they do so...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081663081X
• ISBN13: 9780816630813
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"