Research Catalog

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Description

1. xi, 220 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Evaluates Christine de Pizan's literary engagement with fifteenth-century French politics. Locates the writer's works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

1. Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 > Political and social views
2. Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431 > Criticism and interpretation
3. Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
4. To 1500
5. Politics and literature > France > History > To 1500
6. Political poetry, French > History and criticism
7. Political and social views
8. Political poetry, French
9. Politics and literature
10. France > History > Charles VI, 1380-1422
11. France

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. Christine and the Armagnac-Burgundian feud: regency and kingship -- The beginnings of the feud and Christine's political poetry, 1393-1401 -- The point of no return and the political allegories, 1401-1404 -- Jean of Burgundy and reconfiguring regency, 1405 -- Heading toward showdown and the prose treatises, 1405-1407 -- The great feud, after 1407.

Call number

1. JFE 14-7606

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Adams, Tracy, 1959- author.

Title

1. Christine de Pizan and the fight for France / Tracy Adams.

Publisher

1. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. To 1500

LCCN

1. 2014017173

ISBN

1. 9780271050713 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0271050713 (cloth : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 14-7606