reduce sexual violence. Following this revision of “courtly love” in the romance, I propose that the early-fifteenth-century Parisian writer Christine de Pizan also emphasizes the paradoxical form of the relationship between the sexes. From Christine, I
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The Gallic Singularity
The Medieval and Early Modern Origins
Tracy Adams
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- 21–43 (23 total)
Aemilia Bassano Lanier’s New Perspective on Women in the Poem Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Neslihan Ekmekçioğlu
Deus Rex Judaeorum to Lady Susan, the Countess Dowager of Kent, she expressed her thanks to that noble and virtuous person as ‘the mistress of my youth, / the noble guide of my ungoverned days’. Like Christine de Pizan (author of early fifteenth
Representations of Women in the French Imaginary
Historicizing the Gallic Singularity
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen
-century European and American contexts, has recently argued for the existence of a distinctive tradition of French discussion and debate over “the woman question” that has its origins at least as early as Christine de Pizan's publication of Le livre de la cité des
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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The Colony as the Mystical Body of Christ
Theopolitical Embodiment in Mexico
Jennifer Scheper Hughes
political thinker Christine de Pizan (1364–1430) elaborated this hierarchy in The Book of the Body Politic (1994: 90) , which addressed “the whole of the people in common, described as the belly, legs, and feet, so that the whole be formed and joined in
The Gallic Singularity and the Royal Mistress
Christine Adams
back at least to Christine de Pizan. 9 In her recent book, The Woman Question in France , Karen Offen forcefully makes the point that, over the course of the early modern era, male cultural critics in France celebrated the influence of women on morals
In French Politics, Culture & Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- 44–66 (23 total)
Blanche, Two Chaucers and the Stanley Family
Rethinking the Reception of The Book of the Duchess
Simon Meecham-Jones
alabaster effigy in the church at Ewelme. If there is no clue as to how she viewed the heritage of her grandfather’s art, there are signs that she engaged with contemporary literature. A list of Alice’s books from Ewelme includes a copy of Christine de
In Critical Survey
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- 01 Jun 2018
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- 94–119 (26 total)