Table of Contents

Introduction Christine in Context Christine de Pizan and the Political Life in Late Medieval France, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski Christine de Pizan as Translator and Voice of the Body Politic, Lori Walters Somewhere between Destructive Glosses and Chaos: Christine de Pizan and Medieval Theology, Earl Jeffrey Richards Christine de Pizan: Memory's Architect, Margarete Zimmermann Building a Female Community Christine de Pizan as a Defender of Women, Rosalind Brown-Grant Christine's Treasure: Women's Honor and Household Economies in the Livre des trois vertus, Roberta Krueger Who's a Heroine? The Example of Christine de Pizan, Thelma Fenster Le Livre de la cité des dames: Reconfiguring Knowledge and Reimagining Gendered Space, Judith Kellogg Christine's Writings Love as Metaphor in Christine de Pizan's Ballade Cycles, Tracy Adams The Querelle de la Rose and the Ethics of Reading, Marilyn Desmond The Lessons of Experience and the Chemin de long estude, Andrea Tarnowski The Livre de l'Advision Cristine, Liliane Dulac and Christine Reno Nous deffens de feu, . . . de pestilence, de guerres: Christine de Pizan's Religious Works, Maureen Boulton Christine's Books Christine and the Manuscript Tradition, James Laidlaw Modern Editions: Makers of the Christinian Corpus, Nadia Margolis Contributors Bibliography

Reviews

"Because de Pizan lived and wrote in turbulent times and because she was the first woman to earn a living from her writing, editors Altman and McGrady wisely saw a need for this worthy casebook, which presents both older and newer research in the field." -- Library Journal
"...[a] delightful collection of essays. All chapters are highly readable and carefully documented. The bibliography is a valuable research tool. Highly recommended." -- Choice
"...the research is comprehensive and accompanied by a lengthy introduction. Recommended for academic libraries..." -- Robert Ivey, University of Memphis
"informed, well-developed essays, accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies, which will be useful both for less-experienced students of Christine and for veteran scholars. This is an excellent collection of clear, jargon free studies, offering many perceptive connections among Christine's works." -- Heather Arden, University of Cincinnati, Speculum