She feels sad and depleted after reading it, especially because the book complained about women, and especially marriage. In The Book of the City of Ladies, she reads a book about women that she finds unpleasant and shocking. She likely had in mind a space similar to the one we see in her portrait in the Queen’s Manuscript, in which the artist-possibly even a female manuscript painter-depicts Christine seated at a desk in her study, with writing implements and accompanied by a dog. The text begins with Christine describing how she was sitting in her study, reading. Pizan’s most famous text, called The Book of the City of Ladies, written around 1404–05, is probably the best expression of her views on women. In her poems and prose texts, she would also argue for the rights of women and found opportunities to celebrate women’s achievements. Her participation in the quarrel is a reason that Christine is often called one of the first feminists. She disagreed with the negative, misogynistic attitudes toward women that she felt the book promoted and penned numerous letters to defend women. One of the most active participants in this debate was Christine de Pizan, the first professional author and a woman to boot, and she, along with Jean Gerson (chancellor of the University of Paris) and others, challenged the misogynistic text’s ideas as well as broader societal notions of womanhood. It was called the querelle de femmes, or “the woman question.” It pitted important thinkers against one another. In the early fifteenth century, a major debate about the Romance of the Rose ensued, as did the nature and role of women. With many manuscripts illustrating the story, but it was alsoĬontroversial for its descriptions of courtly love, women, and marriage. Man will acquire the rose, deflowering it. Various allegorical figures or personifications. While there, he seesĪ rose with which he falls in love. Man who, while asleep, encounters a garden of love. The lengthy medieval poem describes a dream vision about In the late Middle Ages, one of the most popular books was the Romance of the Rose ( Roman de la Rose),īegun in 1237 by Guillaume de Lorris and expanded by Jean de Meun someĭecades later. Christine de Pizan in her study (detail), for The Queen’s Manuscript, c.
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