Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 9454
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): McKinley , Mary.
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  • Title: The Subversive "Seulette" [The author briefly discusses Christine's rhetorical strategies in the "Lamentacion sur les maux de la guerre civile." While identifying herself as a "little woman, alone and apart," she persuasively but tactfully reminds the Duke of Berry of his obligations to the princes and people of France. 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 157 - 169.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Authority Christine de Pizan, Poet- Lamentacion sur les Maux de la Guerre Civile Jean, Duke of Berry Literature- Prose Politics Rhetoric Women Authors
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Virginia
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0813384265