Book Of The City Of Ladies And Other Writings Av Christine De Pizan

<b>Advice and guidance for women of all ages, from Europe''s first professional woman writer</b><br><br>Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer,<i> The Treasure of the City of Ladies</i>...

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.

The first political treatise written by a woman. Christine de Pizan¿s¿The Book of the¿Body Politic¿is the first political treatise written by a woman. It not only advises the prince, but nobles, knights, and common people as well. It promotes the...

The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the cultural heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned...