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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Christine de Pizan"”.
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Paris and Patronage: Christine De Pizan and Her Writer's Market
<p>Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-1431), known as the first professional female French author, was successful in becoming a professional writer because she understood the medieval manuscript business in Paris, she knew the aristocrats and royalty who might buy her works, and she knew how to market her …
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Fortune Personified and the Fall (and Rise) of Women in Chaucer's Monk's Tale and the Autobiographical Writings of Christine de Pizan
… be read as a query into femininity. Fortune is depicted with many quintessentially medieval feminine traits, and women in texts that discuss Fortune often have Fortune's traits. While texts that link Fortune and femininity usually do so to censure women, some writers turned the trope to their …
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Rhetoricizing Body and Ritual: Women Writing in the Middle Ages
… ritual theories to the writings of Heloise, Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. I argue that medieval women writers create social dramas within their texts in order to accomplish those ritual transformations which remain unattainable through their personal experiences.
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Medieval Feminine Humanism and Geoffrey Chaucer's Presentation of the Anti-Cecilia
… Tales is often dismissed by scholars and readers alike. However, through analyzing Chaucer's earlier analogues, it becomes apparent that Chaucer has left out key pieces of the Life of Saint Cecelia. These omissions can be explained as attempts to illustrate the humanistic beliefs of both St. …
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"Mrs. Brown's" Journey: An Imagined Correspondence Between Virginai Woolf and Jean-Paul Sartre
… earlier writers and her contemporaries the “moderns” in writing fiction. This project explores the idea that Woolf’s experimental stream of consciousness writing style anticipates themes of Existentialism, the twentieth- century philosophical interpretation of existence based on existence …
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Late medieval authorship and the prophetic tradition
… exploited the prophetic subject position in order to clarify their function as mediators between subject and audience. More than a mask from behind which to safely advance political critiques, the persona of the prophet allowed medieval authors to define the nature of their authority and their …
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Anne of France as Madame La Grande: The Strategies of a Self-Fashioned Woman 1483-1522
… her own image in the form of “Madame la Grande,” a moniker specially formed to denote Anne’s high status and authority. Born in 1461 to King Louis XI and Queen Charlotte of Savoy, Anne seemed destined to be a great lady. Just twenty-two years old in 1483, Anne of France became the guardian …
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"There is a Threeness About You": Trinitarian Images of God, Self, and Community Among Medieval Women Visionaries
Despite the ineffability of the Holy Trinity, not to mention its logical impossibility—that the three persons of the Godhead are also one—many medieval thinkers tried hard to capture its essence and importance. Among the richest and most original medieval images of the Trinity were those produced …
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"In writing it may be spoke": The Politics of Women's Letter-Writing, 1377-1603
… from throughout the late medieval and early modern periods, I argue that the epistolary genre enabled fifteenth- and sixteenth-century women to craft representations of themselves on paper that preserved their modesty yet allowed them to intervene in the public sphere. I also contend that …