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Christine de Pisan

The intellectually brilliant Christine de Pisan became Europe’s first professional female writer. Learn about the extraordinary diversity of her work, her masterful love poetry, and her writings in response to the distorted representation of women in medieval literature, highlighting her allegorical text, The Book of the City of Ladies.

English
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Network The Great Courses
  • Created May 9, 2023 by
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