"This is an exceptional, innovative, and interesting study. The scholarship is admirable, even breathtaking at points. The unusual method--the reader accompanying the writer as she treks down the crooked trail leading to these tapestries--is absolutely compelling."--Sarah Hanley, author of "Les Femmes dans l'histoire: La loi salique" "Susan Groag Bell gives us a unique account of the life and legacy of Christine de Pizan. Written with a scholar's consummate rigor and a detective's sense of urgency, Bell's quest for the ...
Read More
"This is an exceptional, innovative, and interesting study. The scholarship is admirable, even breathtaking at points. The unusual method--the reader accompanying the writer as she treks down the crooked trail leading to these tapestries--is absolutely compelling."--Sarah Hanley, author of "Les Femmes dans l'histoire: La loi salique" "Susan Groag Bell gives us a unique account of the life and legacy of Christine de Pizan. Written with a scholar's consummate rigor and a detective's sense of urgency, Bell's quest for the lost tapestries inspired by Christine's "City of Ladies" makes for compelling reading."--Marilyn Yalom, author of "Birth of the Chess Queen, A History of the Wife, and A History of the Breast" "Bound to become a classic, this meticulously and lovingly researched book is a model of historical scholarship as well as a detective thriller. Susan Bell offers enormous insight not only to readers long familiar with Christine de Pizan's "City of Ladies" but also to those just discovering it. Investigating hitherto neglected archival and art historical evidence, Bell gives new life to the social history of the lost tapestries and their noble and royal owners and reconstructs the integral relation between Renaissance political culture, identity, and Christine's classic defense of women."--Earl Jeffrey Richards, translator of the first English edition of Christine de Pizan's "The Book of the City of Ladies" and co-editor of "Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan"
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
-1. First Edition, first printing with full number line in fine/ like new condition. The pages are clean and crisp with no bent corners. Boards are as new, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. The book is in excellent condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. 0520234103. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--254 pages. --with a bonus offer--
