CHRISTINE DE PIZAN AND THE QUERELLE DE LA ROSE
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN AND THE QUERELLE DE LA ROSE
Author(s): Reghina Dascăl Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Summary/Abstract: "Christine de Pizan has won her central place in the roll of honour of female authors not merely because she gained wide recognition in her own time but also because modern scholars have hailed her as the first woman to have attacked the medieval tradition of clerkly misogyny for its portrayal of the female sex as intrinsically sinful and immoral. Le Roman de la Rose was immensely popular in France at the turn of the fifteenth century both in the circles of the royal and ducal courts and in the circles of the chancellery and the University, and it was Christine de Pizan, society poet and widow of a secretary to the king, who brought the discussions of this romance in these two settings into contact with each other. Her merits have been fiercely contested on the grounds of her alleged "[...]
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2009
- Issue No: 08
- Page Range: 82-113
- Page Count: 32
- Language: English