Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 11251
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Lorcin , Marie-Thérèse.
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  • Title: Le "Livre des Trois Vertus" et le "sermo ad status"
  • Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan.  Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont.  Paradigme, 1995.  Pages 139 - 149.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre des Trois Vertus Handbooks Literature- Prose Social Class in Literature Women in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
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  • Table: Two tables. The table on page 145 lists four categories of literary discourse ("Exposé," "Description d'un modèle," "Discours," and "Récits et portraits") with the percentage in each of the three parts of the text and figures for the text as a whole. The table on page 147 shows the percentage of text devoted to the narrator's direct speech to fifteen categories of women, from 0% for the princess to 94.3% for poor women.
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  • Year of Publication: 1995.
  • Language: French
  • ISSN/ISBN: 2868781381