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Christine de Pisan, the first professional woman writer in France, is most celebrated as the author of a voluminous output of often conventional love lyrics. However, her sober treatises on a number of social and political issues are even more noteworthy. Much has been written about her feminism and her ideas on education. This dissertation aims at evaluating certain other aspects of her social and political thinking which, hitherto, have not been studied to any extent: her role as a historian, her political thought, her view of the nobility and of chivalric ideals, and the reflection of personal relationships in her works. As for historical perspective, her attempt to write a biographical history of Charles V in Le Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V lacks what today might be termed historical method. Coming chronologically between Froissart and Coramynes, her work resembles neither one. Her effort to write a panegyric of Charles V and to glorify his reign has more of an affinity with Joinville's history of Saint Louis. But, what is most important is that she vividly captures the spirit of the age. Her view of the nobility is ambivalent. Basically a traditionalist

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Author

Barbara P. Edmonds

Publisher

University of Maryland

Published

1972

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction