Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 17578
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Walters , Lori.
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  • Title: Fathers and Daughters: Christine de Pizan as Reader of the Male Tradition of "Clergie" in the "Dit de la Rose" [The author investigates the literary relationship between Christine and the male poet Eustache Deschamps. Christine refers to the poet as her master, and her subsequent career is an attempt to beat Deschamps in a contest for poetic legitimacy. Christine may have modeled this literary relationship on the one between Dante and Virgil, but Christine ultimately overcomes the anxiety of influence that characterizes Deschamps’ relationship to his own poetic predecessor Guillaume Machaut. 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 63 - 76.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Christine de Pizan, Poet- Dit de la Rose Daughter, Image of Deschamps, Eustache, Poet Father, Image of Guillaume de Machaut, Poet Literature- History and Criticism Literature- Verse Male Authors Sources Teachers Women Authors
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 14- 15
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0820313076