The Vision of Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan's 'The Vision' is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry V's invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the author's own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found itself in 1405, and offers a possible future, calling for its resolution in the voice of a prophet. Alongside her documentation of the difficulties faced by a medieval woman left widowed early in life, she also explores issues of gender and authorship, interpretation and misinterpretation in her remarkable career as a writer and advisor of princes. Glenda McLeod is Professor Emerita, Gainesville State College; Charity Cannon Willard was Professor Emerita, Ladycliff College.

• | Author: Glenda McLeod
• | Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 199 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 184384298X
• | ISBN-13: 9781843842989