The Allegory of Female Authority : Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames" /

The Allegory of Female Authority : Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames" /

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The first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work on women's history by a woman. An allegoric...

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Main Author: Quilligan, Maureen, 1944- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
To 1500
Authority in literature
Authorship > Sex differences > History > To 1500
Feminism and literature > France > History > To 1500
Women and literature > France > History > To 1500
Gender Studies
Literary Studies
Authorship > Sex differences
Feminism and literature
History
Women and literature
France
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