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Christine de Pizan (1364 - 1430)

Short name Christine de Pizan
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First name Christine
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Alternative name Christine de Pisan
Date of birth 1364
Date of death 1430
Death date Notes c. 1430
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Sex Female
Place of birth Venezia
Place of death Poissy (Prieuré Saint-Louis)
Lived in Venezia , Paris , France
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Unknown maker, miniature of Christine de Pisan, in compendium of her works commissioned in 1413, The British Library, Harley 4431, f.259v
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Religion / ideology Catholic
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Christine de Pizan was ...
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Place(s) of Residence Venezia , Paris , France
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Le Livre des trois vertus (1401) 4 0
Le chemin de longue estude (1403) 2 0
Le Livre des faits et bonnes mœurs du sage roi Charles V (1404) 2 0
La Cité des Dames (1405) 5 0
La Vision (1405) 1 0
Livre du corps de policie (1407) 1 0
Oeuvres poétiques de Christine de Pizan (1430) 5 0
Faits d'armes et de chevalerie. Les douze vertus d'un noble homme (1488) 1 0
Les cent hystoires de Troye (1522) 1 0
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Circulations of Christine de Pizan, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Christine de Pizan, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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Unknown maker, miniature of Christine de Pisan, in compendium of her works commissioned in 1413, The British Library, Harley 4431, f.259v 1413 is portrait of
Collection des meilleurs ouvrages françois, composés par des femmes, dédiée aux femmes françoises Kéralio, Louise-Félicité Guinement de 1786 is biography of
*Article dans Dictionnaire historique [..] Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée Bernier 1804 is biography of
*Chapter in Le Plutarque des jeunes demoiselles Propiac, Catherine-Joseph-Ferdinand de 1806 is biography of
De l'Influence des femmes Mongellaz, Fanny 1828 is biography of
*Mention in Histoire des femmes écrivains de la France Henri Carton 1886 is biography of
Christine de Pisan Paul Jacquinet 1886 is biography of
Les Petits poëtes et littérateurs, contes historiques dédiés à la jeunesse, par Mme Eugénie Foa... Le Roi René, Christine de Pisan, Clément Marot, Mme de Sévigné, Fénelon, Daniel de Foe, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Mme de Staël Foa, Eugénie 1890 is biography of
Christine de Pisan J. Desplantes , P. Pouthier 1890 is biography of
Histoire de la littérature française Gustave Lanson 1894 comments on person
Žensko delo in socialni cilji Women's Work and Social Goals Unknown translator (to be identified) 1911 quotes person
Pregled glavni zastopnic francoskega slovstva Overview of the Main Female Representatives of French Literature Debeljak, Anton 1912 comments on person
Histoire de la littérature féminine en France Jean Larnac 1921 is biography of
Vrouwenspiegel: een literair-sociologische studie over de Nederlandse romanschrijfster na 1880 Romein Verschoor, Annie 1936 comments on person

MENTIONED IN:
- Boudier de Villemert 1778
- Briquet 1804
- Mongellaz, 1828
- Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Desplantes et Pouthier, 1890, p.7-14 - Larnac, 1921 - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992 - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) I, 181 - Debeljak, Pregled, 1912 Cf. - C. Willard, Christine de Pizan. Her life and works. New York, 1984. - M. Quilligan, The Allegory of Female Authority. Ithaca/Londen, 1991. - H. Solterer, The Master and Minerva. Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture. Berkely/London, 1995. - Lerner, Creation of Feminist Consciousness, 1993, discussed p.49-50, 143-6, 192-5 reception: William Caxton, epilogue de sa traduction des Enseignemens moraux (1478), dans W.J.B. Crotch, The Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton, Londres, Oxford University Press, 1928, p. 32 et épilogue de The Fayttes of Armes (1489), traduction des Fais d'armes et de chevalerie, id., p. 103-104.

NOT MENTIONED IN:
- La Porte 1769

As a child traveled with her father to the French court.
Also lived in Abbaye de Poissy, where she died.

Married (1380), widowed (1389). 1 daughter, 2 sons.

MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p. 35ss: critique of institutional marriage