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1. Record Number: 14748
Author(s): Tolhurst, Fiona.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Great Divide?: History and Literary History as Partners in Medieval Mythology [The author takes four literary works by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Matthew Paris, Boccaccio, and Christine de Pizan as case studies. She argues that they all demonstrate a sophisticated mix of historical, legendary, and Biblical figures. Furthermore in their representations of women they each perform significant cultural work. Geoffrey of Monmouth sought to legitimize Empress Matilda's rule of England. Matthew Paris reinforced desirable female behavior by critcizing dangerous female traits. Boccaccio offered models for women to emulate. Christine de Pizan took this further by acknowledging misogyny in her sources and championing woman's moral nature. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004): Pages 7 - 27.
Year of Publication: 2004.

2. Record Number: 12607
Author(s): Krueger, Roberta L.
Contributor(s):
Title : Uncovering Griselda: Christine de Pizan, “un seule chemise,” and the Clerical Tradition: Boccaccio, Petrarch, Philippe de Mézières and the Ménagier de Paris [Christine’s sparse and forceful retelling of the story of patient Griselda in “La Cité des Dames” corrects the clerical tradition that informed previous versions of the story. While male writers like Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer frame the Griselda story with interpretive commentary, Christine strips the story of embellishment in order to focus attention on Griselda’s eloquence and her suffering at the will of her cruel husband. Just as Griselda is clothed and unclothed as she shifts in status within the story, so is the Griselda narrative itself rhetorically unclothed as Christine retells it. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings. Edited by E. Jane Burns . Palgrave, 2004. Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004): Pages 71 - 88.
Year of Publication: 2004.

3. Record Number: 6210
Author(s): Dufresne, Laura Rinaldi
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Title : From Goddess to Amazon: Christine de Pizan and Fifteenth-Century Miniatures of Might

Source: Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. . 2002. Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004):
Year of Publication: 2002.

4. Record Number: 5534
Author(s): Edsall, Mary Agnes.
Contributor(s):
Title : Like Wise Master Builders: Jean Gerson's Ecclesiology, "Lectio Divina," and Christine de Pizan's "Livre de la Cité des Dames"

Source: Medievalia et Humanistica New Series , 27., ( 2000): Pages 33 - 56. Literacy and the Lay Reader
Year of Publication: 2000.

5. Record Number: 4270
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Title : The Widow as Virgin: Desexualized Narrative in Christine de Pizan's "Livre de la cité des dames"

Source: Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages. Edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl . St. Martin's Press, 1999. Medievalia et Humanistica New Series , 27., ( 2000): Pages 49 - 62.
Year of Publication: 1999.

6. Record Number: 4476
Author(s): Wolfthal, Diane.
Contributor(s):
Title : Douleur sur toutes autres: Revisualizing the Rape Script in the "Epistre Othea" and the "Cité des dames"

Source: Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference. Edited by Marilynn Desmond . University of Minnesota Press, 1998. Medievalia et Humanistica New Series , 27., ( 2000): Pages 41 - 70.
Year of Publication: 1998.

7. Record Number: 7209
Author(s): Kane, Stuart A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Now the First Stone is Set: Christine de Pisan and the Colonial City [The author argues that Christine de Pizan in both the "Livre de la cite des dames" and the "Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc" advances a prophetic vision of a Francocentric domination of the East. He focuses in particular on the characters of Semiramis, Zenobia, and Dido. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Comitatus , 29., ( 1998): Pages 76 - 94.
Year of Publication: 1998.

8. Record Number: 1204
Author(s): Wisman, Josette A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Christine de Pizan and Arachne's Metamorphoses

Source: Fifteenth Century Studies , 23., ( 1997): Pages 138 - 151.
Year of Publication: 1997.

9. Record Number: 2509
Author(s): White, Catherine L.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and Their Fathers in Three French Medieval Literary Works ["Le Roman de Silence," "Erec et Enide," and "Le Livre de la Cite des Dames"].

Source: Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 24., (Fall 1997): Pages 42 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1997.

10. Record Number: 2483
Author(s): Donovan, Josephine.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and the Framed-Novelle: A Tradition of Their Own [argues that women used the prose fiction form to counter such misogynist ideas as women as commodities of exchange and thereby developed a feminist consciousness, an awareness of the unjust subordination of women; though primarily devoted to women authors in the early modern period, the author briefly discusses the "Livre de la cité des dames" and the "Evangiles des quenouilles"].

Source: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Full Text via JSTOR) 22, 4 (Summer 1997): 947-980. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

11. Record Number: 2714
Author(s): Donovan, Michelle A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Rewriting Hagiography: The "Livre de la cité des dames"

Source: Women in French Studies , 4., ( 1996): Pages 14 - 26.
Year of Publication: 1996.

12. Record Number: 728
Author(s): Blumenfeld- Kosinski, Renate
Contributor(s):
Title : Femme de Corps et Femme Par Sens: Christine de Pizan's Saintly Women

Source: Romanic Review , 87., 2 (March 1996): Pages 157 - 175.
Year of Publication: 1996.

13. Record Number: 2715
Author(s): McWebb, Christine.
Contributor(s):
Title : La Mythologie révisionniste chez Christine de Pizan [analysis of the mythological types (women warriors, sibyls, and virgins) that Christine in the "Cité des Dames" refashions from Boccaccio and in the "Ditié" creates out of her own "auctoritas"].

Source: Women in French Studies , 4., ( 1996): Pages 27 - 39.
Year of Publication: 1996.

14. Record Number: 858
Author(s): Hall, Colette.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Genealogy of an Idea: From "La Cité des Dames" to "Le Fort inexpugnable de l' honneur du sexe femenin"

Source: Fifteenth Century Studies , 22., ( 1996): Pages 109 - 118.
Year of Publication: 1996.

15. Record Number: 1608
Author(s): Kottenhoff, Margarete.
Contributor(s):
Title : Die Miniaturen des "Livre de la Cité des Dames" als historiche Quellen

Source: Historisches Jahrbuch , 115., 2 ( 1995): Pages 335 - 361.
Year of Publication: 1995.

16. Record Number: 1704
Author(s): Slerca, Anna.
Contributor(s):
Title : Dante, Boccace, et le "Livre de la Cité des Dames" de Christine de Pizan

Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan. Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont . Paradigme, 1995. Historisches Jahrbuch , 115., 2 ( 1995): Pages 221 - 230.
Year of Publication: 1995.

17. Record Number: 1702
Author(s): Cropp, Glynnis M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Les personnages féminins tirés de l'histoire de la France dans le "Livre de la Cité des Dames" [brief discussions of the twenty-one French queens, countesses, and duchesses in the text].

Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan. Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont . Paradigme, 1995. Women in French Studies , 4., ( 1996): Pages 195 - 208.
Year of Publication: 1995.

18. Record Number: 1701
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Title : Christine de Pizan's Feminist Strategies : The Defense of the African and Asian Ladies in the "Book of the City of the Ladies"

19. Record Number: 153
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Title : Good Women and Bonnes Dames: Virtuous Females in Chaucer and Christine de Pizan

Source: Chaucer Review , 30., 1 ( 1995): Pages 58 - 70.
Year of Publication: 1995.

20. Record Number: 2558
Author(s): Kempton, Daniel.
Contributor(s):
Title : Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames" and "Trésor de la Cité": Toward a Feminist Scriptural Practice

Source: Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women. Edited by Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan . State University of New York Press, 1995. Chaucer Review , 30., 1 ( 1995): Pages 14 - 37.
Year of Publication: 1995.

21. Record Number: 1703
Author(s): Mühlethaler, Jean- Claude.
Contributor(s):
Title : Problèmes de récriture : amour et mort de la princesse de Salerne dans le "Decameron" (IV, 1) et dans la "Cité des Dames" (II, 59)

Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan. Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont . Paradigme, 1995. Chaucer Review , 30., 1 ( 1995): Pages 209 - 220.
Year of Publication: 1995.

22. Record Number: 1720
Author(s): Brown-Grant, Rosalind.
Contributor(s):
Title : Des hommes et des femmes illustres : modalités narratives et transformations génériques chez Pétrarque, Boccace, et Christine de Pizan

23. Record Number: 2523
Author(s): Brownlee, Kevin.
Contributor(s):
Title : Christine de Pizan's Canonical Authors: The Special Case of Boccaccio [analyzes Christine's rewriting in the "Cite des Dames" of three of Boccaccio's stories from the "Decameron" (the story of Bernabò da Genova, Ambruogiuolo, and Zinevra ; the story of Elisabetta, Lorenzo, and the "testo di bassilico"); Christine rereads Boccaccio's female exemplars in part to establish a new female authorial persona].

Source: Comparative Literature Studies , 32., 2 ( 1995): Pages 244 - 261.
Year of Publication: 1995.

24. Record Number: 1506
Author(s): Dufresne, Laura Rinaldi
Contributor(s):
Title : Women Warriors: A Special Case from the Fifteenth Century: "The City of Ladies" [manuscript illustrations from the later fifteenth century generally ignore or distort the military, moral, and heroic qualities of Christine's women warriors in favor of domestic scenes and aristocratic women's fashions].

Source: Women's Studies , 23., 2 ( 1994): Pages 111 - 131.
Year of Publication: 1994.

25. Record Number: 1765
Author(s): Semple, Benjamin.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Male Psyche and the Female Sacred Body in Marie de France and Christine de Pizan

Source: Yale French Studies (Full Text via JSTOR) 86 (1994): 164-186 Corps Mystique, Corps Sacré: Textual Transfigurations of the Body from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century.Link Info
Year of Publication: 1994.

26. Record Number: 3413
Author(s): Zhang, Xiangyun.
Contributor(s):
Title : La communauté féminine: Lien entre "Le Livre de la cite des dames" et "Le livre des trois vertus"

Source: Romance Notes , 34., 3 (Spring 1994): Pages 291 - 300.
Year of Publication: 1994.

27. Record Number: 3411
Author(s): Enders, Jody
Contributor(s):
Title : The Feminist Mnemonics of Christine de Pizan

Source: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly , 55., 3 (September 1994): Pages 231 - 249.
Year of Publication: 1994.

28. Record Number: 11421
Author(s): Laennec, Christine Moneera.
Contributor(s):
Title : Unladylike Polemics: Christine de Pizan's Strategies of Attack and Defense [The author discusses Pizan's methods of argumentation. By claiming female weakness and the persona of a virgin martyr, she put her attackers at a decided disadvantage. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (Full Text via JSTOR) 12, 1 (Spring 1993): 47-59. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1993.

29. Record Number: 5335
Author(s): O'Brien, Dennis J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Warrior Queen: The Character of Zenobia According to Giovanni Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, and Sir Thomas Elyot [The author argues that Boccaccio describes Zenobia in misogynistic terms, while Christine de Pizan emphasizes her moral intergrity and natural skills at politics and governing].

Source: Medieval Perspectives , 8., ( 1993): Pages 53 - 68.
Year of Publication: 1993.

30. Record Number: 10370
Author(s): Stecopoulos, Eleni and Karl D. Uitti
Contributor(s):
Title : Christine de Pizan’s “Le Livre de la Cite des Dames”: The Reconstruction of Myth [The author examines Christine’s response to a misogynist literary tradition through her treatment of myth and history. Christine derives mythological material from Boccaccio and largely recasts female mythological figures (like goddesses) as historical figures, in contrast to the more common trend of mythologizing history (treating historical figures as mythological). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan. Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno . University of Georgia Press, 1992. Pages 48 - 62.
Year of Publication: 1992.

31. Record Number: 9126
Author(s): Meale, Carol M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Legends of Good Women in the European Middle Ages [The author addresses the texts about exemplary women written by Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, and Chaucer. She takes the character of Medea as an example of their differing approaches, arguing that Chaucer is interested in women in terms of their literary development while Christine has a political dimension to her text. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen , 229., 144 ( 1992): Pages 55 - 70.
Year of Publication: 1992.

32. Record Number: 10369
Author(s): McLeod, Glenda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Poetics and Antimisogynist Polemics in Christine de Pizan’s "Le Livre de la Cite des Dames" [The author explores the central role of morality and ethics in Christine’s work. The “Livre” is a work of generic and allegorical sophistication. In this text, Christine adapts some of the structures and rhetorical conventions of scholasticism in order to attack literary misogyny. The author compares the literary strategies used in Christine’s work to the allegorical procedures used by scholastic thinkers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan. Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno . University of Georgia Press, 1992. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen , 229., 144 ( 1992): Pages 37 - 47.
Year of Publication: 1992.

33. Record Number: 11121
Author(s): Brabant, Margaret and Michael Brint
Contributor(s):
Title : Identity and Difference in Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames" [The author explores tensions within the "Cité des dames." Christine frequently calls on universal Christian values, but she also gives voice to others, in particular women who have been marginalized. By demonstrating a mutual respect for these differences, Christine skillfully navigates between universalism and a politics of the other. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Politics, Gender, and Genre: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan. Edited by Margaret Brabant . Westview Press, 1992. Pages 207 - 222.
Year of Publication: 1992.

34. Record Number: 8726
Author(s): Quilligan, Maureen.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Name of the Author: Self-Representation in Christine de Pizan's "Livre de la cite des dames" [The article focuses on the way Christine de Pizan constructs herself as a "professional" writer by naming herself at key moments, and by making her own experience the fundamental authority in her text. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 4., 1 (Spring 1992): Pages 201 - 228.
Year of Publication: 1992.

35. Record Number: 11193
Author(s): Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate
Contributor(s):
Title : Christine de Pizan and the Misogynistic Tradition [In her poetry, Christine de Pizan refutes the misogynist literary tradition exemplified by such texts as the Roman de la Rose. She confronts misogyny on three fronts: reason, experience, and writing. In her allegorical poems, Lady Reason encourages the author to reconsider common notions about women. The poet’s own experience allows her to give many counter examples to misogynist texts. Most importantly, Christine’s scholarly acts of reading and writing generate numerous examples of feminine virtue from books that previous writers have ignored. Reprinted in The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan: New Translations, Criticism. Edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. Pages 297-311. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Romanic Review , 81., 3 ( 1990): Pages 279 - 292. Reprinted in The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan: New Translations, Criticism. Edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. Translated by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Kevin Brownlee. W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. Pages 297-311.
Year of Publication: 1990.