The Washington Post: Christine de Pizan was not a ‘good feminist.’ Can we still learn from her?
This week, I was talking to my public university students about medieval literary luminary Christine de Pizan. Christine, widowed at 25, was left with a household to support and no income, but managed ...
Christine de Pizan was not a ‘good feminist.’ Can we still learn from her?
Yahoo: Centuries after Christine de Pizan wrote a book railing against misogyny, Taylor Swift is building her own ‘City of Ladies’
Centuries after Christine de Pizan wrote a book railing against misogyny, Taylor Swift is building her own ‘City of Ladies’
Princeton University: FPUL Small Talk with Renate Kosinski: “Christine de Pizan from Venice to Paris to Princeton: The Trajectory of a Medieval Writer and Entrepreneur”
On Wednesday, September 18, the Friends of PUL’s own Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski will reveal the story of Venice-born French writer Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-c. 1430). Raised in an intellectual ...
FPUL Small Talk with Renate Kosinski: “Christine de Pizan from Venice to Paris to Princeton: The Trajectory of a Medieval Writer and Entrepreneur”
Alone am I and alone I wish to be. So runs the opening line of one of the most famous ballades composed by Christine de Pizan (c.1364 to c.1430), a professional writer in service at the court of ...
Inside Higher Ed: Christine de Pizan on Gender and Warfare in the Middle Ages
La Brújula Verde: Christine de Pizan, the first professional female writer in the Late Middle Ages and a forerunner of feminism
Christine de Pizan, the first professional female writer in the Late Middle Ages and a forerunner of feminism