Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 12513
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Richards , Earl Jeffrey.
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  • Title: Rejecting Essentialism and Gendered Writing: The Case of Christine de Pizan [Christine de Pizan challenges the misogyny inherent in medieval literary culture].
  • Source: Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages.  Edited by Jane Chance.  University Press of Florida, 1996.  Pages 96 - 131.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Christine de Pizan, Poet Essentialism Gender in Literature Jean de Meun, Poet- Roman de la Rose Ovid, Ancient Poet Ovide, Moralise, French Poem
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
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  • Related Resources: Focusing on Christine de Pisan, Earl Jeffrey Richards confirms Murk-Jansen's observation that within religious discourse medieval writers often ignored the gender difference as "the soul was first created by God as an intellectual spirit" (105). Christine
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  • Year of Publication: 1996.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0813013917