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Christine de Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy - Cooper-Davis, Charlotte
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The first popular biography of a pioneering feminist thinker and writer of medieval Paris. The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the cultural heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the book trade, writing more than forty works that included poetry, historical and political treatises, and defenses of women. In this new biography-the first written for a general audience-Charlotte Cooper-Davis discusses the life and work of this pioneering ...

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Christine de Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy 2021, Reaktion Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781789144420

Hardcover