One day as I was sitting alone in my study surrounded by books on all kinds of subjects, devoting. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture. Christine de Pisan: The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). She was Italian and wrote in France in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth.
THE CITY OF LADIES provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints. Christine de Pizan was the most famous female author of the middle ages. Classifying or defining Pisan as a writer of feminist historical fiction allows one to read her seminal work The City of Ladies and its inherent poetry, history. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters.
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