Approaches To Teaching The Works Of Christine De Pizan

Author : Andrea Tarnowski
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603293280

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Christine de Pizan by Andrea Tarnowski Pdf

A prolific poet and a protofeminist, Christine de Pizan worked within a sophisticated late medieval court culture and formed an identity as an authority on her society's preoccupations with religion, politics, and morality. Her works address various aspects of misogyny, the appropriate actions of rulers, and the ethical framework for social conduct. In addition to gaining a readership in fifteenth-century France, Christine's works influenced writers in Tudor England and were identified by twentieth-century readers as important contributions both to the emergence of a professional literary class and to the intellectual climate that gave rise to early modern Europe. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," surveys the editions in Middle French, translations into modern French and English, and the many scholarly resources and critical reactions of the past fifty years. Part 2, "Approaches," provides insights into various aspects of Christine's works that can be explored with students, from considerations of genre and form to the themes of virtue, history, and memory. Teachers of French, English, world literature, and women's studies will find useful ideas throughout the volume.

Author : Charlotte Cooper-Davis
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789144413

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Christine de Pizan by Charlotte Cooper-Davis Pdf

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 the tools of the book trade, writing more than forty works that included poetry, historical and political treatises, and defenses of women. In this new biography—the first written for a general audience—Charlotte Cooper-Davis discusses the life and work of this pioneering female thinker and writer. She shows how Christine de Pizan’s inspiration came from the world around her, situates her as an entrepreneur within the context of her times and place, and finally examines her influence on the most avant-garde of feminist artists, through whom she is slowly making a return into mainstream popular culture.

Author : Gloria Allaire,Julie Human
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000798883

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Courtly Pastimes by Gloria Allaire,Julie Human Pdf

The modern concept of passing leisure hours pleasantly would, in the Middle Ages, have fallen under the rubric of Sloth, a deadly sin. Yet aristocrats of past centuries were not always absorbed in affairs of state or warfare. What did they do in moments of peace, "downtime" as we might call it today? In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines investigate courtly modes of entertainment ranging from the vigorous to the intellectual: hunting, jousting, horse racing; physical and verbal games; reading, writing, and book ownership. Favorite pastimes spanned differences of gender and age, and crossed geographical and cultural boundaries. Literary and historical examples come from England, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige, to acquire cultural capital, to instill a sense of community, or to build diplomatic alliances. Performativity − so crucial in social rituals − could become transgressive if taken to extremes. Certain chapters explore the spaces of courtliness: literal or imaginary; man-made, natural, or a hybrid of both. Other chapters concern materiality and visual elements associated with courtly pastimes: from humble children’s toys and playthings to elite tournament attire, castle murals, and manuscript illuminations.

Author : Christine de Pizan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141961019

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The Treasure of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan Pdf

Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.

Author : Marilynn Desmond
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816630801

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Christine de Pizan : Texts/intertexts/contexts by Marilynn Desmond Pdf

Christine de Pizan, an Italian-born writer in French in the early 15th century, composed lyric poetry, debate poetry, political biography, and allegory. 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 Christine's work in the context of larger discussions about medieval authorship, identity, and categories of difference.

Author : Daisy Delogu,Anne-Hélène Miller
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603295697

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Approaches to Teaching the Romance of the Rose by Daisy Delogu,Anne-Hélène Miller Pdf

One of the most influential texts of its time, the Romance of the Rose offers readers a window into the world view of the late Middle Ages in Europe, including notions of moral philosophy and courtly love. Yet the Rose also explores topics that remain relevant to readers today, such as gender, desire, and the power of speech. Students, however, can find the work challenging because of its dual authorship by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, its structure as an allegorical dream vision, and its encyclopedic length and scope. The essays in this volume offer strategies for teaching the poem with confidence and enjoyment. Part 1, "Materials," suggests helpful background resources. Part 2, "Approaches," presents contexts, critical approaches, and strategies for teaching the work and its classical and medieval sources, illustrations, and adaptations as well as the intellectual debates that surrounded it.

Author : Christine De Pizan
Publisher : Persea Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0892553731

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The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan Pdf

In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to men. Earl Jeffrey Richards' acclaimed translation is used nationwide in the most eminent colleges and universities in America, from Columbia to Stanford.

Author : Emilie L. Bergmann,Stacey Schlau
Publisher : Approaches to Teaching World L
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173030568995

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz by Emilie L. Bergmann,Stacey Schlau Pdf

"This volume addresses the religious, sociocultural, and political context of colonial society. Sor Juana lived in a convent, a community of women whose lives were strictly regulated by the rules of their order (in her case, the Hieronymites). She was subject to the authority of the bishop and other clerics. She lived in the capital of an enormously wealthy colonized region whose vast territory and many inaccessible rural areas created governance nightmares. She participated in a highly stratified colonial society in which class, race, religion, and gender determined performative behaviors to a great extent. She was subject to a power struggle between the secular and religious arms of government, as well as internecine church conflicts. Her ability to throw off some of the weight of restrictions and limitations on a woman of her temperament, vocation, and family background remains truly remarkable"--Emilie L. Bergmann and Stacey Schlau, Preface, p. xii.

Author : Christine De Pizan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781624667312

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The Book of the City of Ladies and Other Writings by Christine De Pizan Pdf

"Fresh, accurate, and engaging, this new translation of the Book of the City of Ladies helps us to understand what made Christine de Pizan so popular with her fifteenth-century contemporaries. The editors provide a rich historical and philosophical context that will be very useful to both students and scholars of the history of political ideas. The translations themselves gracefully navigate the fine line between accuracy and readability with considerable charm. Rounding out this portrait of the turmoil of fifteenth-century France, the volume is enriched by excerpts from other works, Christine's Vision, the Book of the Body Politic, and the Lamentation on France’s Ills." —Kate Forhan, Emeritus, Siena College CONTENTS:IntroductionA Note on Translating the Book of the City of LadiesChristine de Pizan: Her works, Her TimesSuggestions for Further ReadingFrom Christine's Vision (1405)The Book of the City of Ladies (1404–1405)From The Book of the Body Politic (1404–1407)From Lamentation on France's Ills (1410)Index

Author : Susan Bordo,M. Cristina Alcalde,Ellen Rosenman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520264229

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Provocations by Susan Bordo,M. Cristina Alcalde,Ellen Rosenman Pdf

The first collection of its kind, Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought is historically organized and transnational in scope, highlighting key ideas, transformative moments, and feminist conversations across national and cultural borders. Emphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this anthology heralds a new approach to studying feminist history. Provocations includes engaging, historically significant primary sources by writers of many nationalities in numerous genres—from political manifestos to theoretical and cultural analysis to poetry and fiction. These texts range from those of classical antiquity to others composed during the Arab Spring and represent Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Western Europe, and the United States. Each section begins with an introductory essay that presents central ideas and explores connections among readings, placing them in historical, national, and intellectual contexts and concluding with questions for discussion and reflection.

Author : Mary K. Holland,Heather Hewett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501372759

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#MeToo and Literary Studies by Mary K. Holland,Heather Hewett Pdf

Literature has always recorded a history of patriarchy, sexual violence, and resistance. Academics have been using literature to expose and critique this violence and domination for half a century. But the continued potency of #MeToo after its 2017 explosion adds new urgency and wider awareness about these issues, while revealing new ways in which rape culture shapes our everyday lives. This intersectional guide helps readers, students, teachers, and scholars face and challenge our culture of sexual violence by confronting it through the study of literature. #MeToo and Literary Studies gathers essays on literature from Ovid to Carmen Maria Machado, by academics working across the United States and around the world, who offer clear ways of using our reading, teaching, and critical practices to address rape culture and sexual violence. It also examines the promise and limitations of the #MeToo movement itself, speaking to the productive use of social media as well as to the voices that the movement has so far muted. In uniting diverse voices to enable the #MeToo movement to reshape literary studies, this book is also committed to the idea that the way we read and write about literature can make real change in the world.

Author : Barbara K. Altmann,Deborah L. McGrady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000143522

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Christine de Pizan by Barbara K. Altmann,Deborah L. McGrady Pdf

Christine de Pizan wrote voluminously, commenting on various aspects of the late-medieval society in which she lived. Considered by many to be the first French woman of letters, Christine and her writing have been difficult to place ever since she began putting her thoughts on the page. Although her work was neglected in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, there has been a eruption of Christine studies in recent decades, making her the perfect subject for a casebook. This volume serves as a useful guide to contemporary research exploring Christine's life and work as they reflected and influenced her socio-political milieu.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433068180854

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The Book of Peace by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christine de Pizan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226670140

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Debate of the Romance of the Rose by Christine de Pizan Pdf

In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365–1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read Romance of the Rose for its blatant and unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. The debate that ensued, over not only the merits of the treatise but also of the place of women in society, started Europe on the long path to gender parity. Pizan’s criticism sparked a continent-wide discussion of issues that is still alive today in disputes about art and morality, especially the civic responsibility of a writer or artist for the works he or she produces. In Debate of the “Romance of the Rose,” David Hult collects, along with the debate documents themselves, letters, sermons, and excerpts from other works of Pizan, including one from City of Ladies—her major defense of women and their rights—that give context to this debate. Here, Pizan’s supporters and detractors are heard alongside her own formidable, protofeminist voice. The resulting volume affords a rare look at the way people read and thought about literature in the period immediately preceding the era of print.

Author : Faith E. Beasley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351902212

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Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France by Faith E. Beasley Pdf

The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which became identified with the great reign of Louis XIV and designated the official canon of French literature. Beasley argues that in a rewriting of this past, the salons were reconfigured in order to advance an alternative view of this premier moment of French culture and of the literary masterpieces that developed out of it. Through her analysis of how the seventeenth century salon has been defined and transmitted to posterity, Beasley illuminates facets of France's collective memory, and the powers that constituted it in the past and that are still working to define it today.