Christine De Pizan and the Categories of Difference - 9780816630813

Christine De Pizan and the Categories of DifferenceAuthor(s): Marilynn Desmond\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816630813, 978-0816630813\nSynopsis\nEstablishes the place of this medieval writer within considerations of difference.\n\nChristine de Pizan, an Italian-born writer in French in the early fifteenth century, composed lyric poetry, debate poetry, political biography, and allegory. At times complicit, at times subversive, at times revisionary, her texts constantly negotiate the hierarchical and repressive discourses of late medieval court culture. How they do so is the focus of this volume, which places Christines work in the context of larger discussions about medieval authorship, identity, and categories of difference.\n\nContributors from the fields of history, literature, legal theory, art history, and medieval studies offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the Christi.