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Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cite des Dames (1405) is justly renowned for its full-scale assault on the misogynist stereotypes which dominated the culture of the Middle Ages. Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cite in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts. Arguing that Christine tailored her critique of misogyny according to the genre in which she was writing and the audience whom she was addressing, this study shows that Christine's case for women nonetheless had an underlying unity in its insistence on the moral, if not the social, equality of the sexes. Whilst Christine may not have been a radical in modern feminist terms, she was able to draw upon the cultural resources of her day in order to construct an intellectual authority for herself that challenged the prevailing orthodoxy of the medieval period. Rosalind Brown-Grant lectures in the Department of French at the University of Leeds. She has translated Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies for Penguin Classics (1999), and has published essays on medieval literature and culture in numerous scholarly journals. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information cambridge studies in medieval literature General editor Alastair Minnis, University of York Editorial board Patrick Boyde, University of Cambridge John Burrow, University of Bristol Rita Copeland, University of Minnesota Alan Deyermond, University of London Peter Dronke, University of Cambridge Simon Gaunt, University of London Nigel Palmer, University of Oxford Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell University This series of critical books seeks to cover the whole area of literature written in the major medieval languages ± the main European vernaculars, and medieval Latin and Greek ± during the period c. 1100±1500. Its chief aim is to publish and stimulate fresh scholarship and criticism on medieval literature, special emphasis being placed on understanding major works of poetry, prose, and drama in relation to the contemporary culture and learning which fostered them. Recent titles in the series 32 Patricia E. Grieve `Floire and Blanche¯or' and the European Romance 0 521 43162 X 33 Huw Pryce (ed.) Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies 0 521 57039 5 34 Mary Carruthers The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400±1200 0 521 58232 6 35 Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann The Evolution of Arthurian Romance: The Verse Tradition from ChreÂtien to Froissart 0 521 41153 x 36 SiaÃn Echard Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition 0 521 62126 7 37 Fiona Somerset Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England 0 521 62154 2 38 Florence Percival Chaucer's Legendary Good Women 0 521 41655 8 39 Christopher Cannon The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words 0 521 59274 7 A complete list of titles in the series can be found at the end of the volume © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information CHRISTINE DE PIZAN AND THE MORAL DEFENCE OF WOMEN Reading beyond gender ROSALIND BROWN-GRANT © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011±4211, USA http://www.cup.org 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia # Rosalind Brown-Grant 1999 The book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1999 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeset in Baskerville 11/1212 [ c e ] A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 521 64194 2 hardback © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information For Liliane, who ®rst helped me on to the `chemin de long estude' © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information Contents Acknowledgments List of abbreviations page x xi Introduction 1 The `querelle de la Rose': Christine's critique of misogynist doctrine and literary practice 2 The Epistre OtheÂa: an ethical and allegorical alternative to the Roman de la Rose? 3 The Avision-Christine: a female exemplar for the princely reader 4 The Livre de la Cite des Dames: generic transformation and the moral defence of women 5 The Livre des Trois Vertus: a betrayal of the Cite ? Conclusion 1 128 175 215 Index 220 7 52 89 ix © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information Acknowledgments I would like to thank Jane H. M. Taylor and Peter F. Ainsworth for all their encouragement during the early stages of this project. In the ®eld of `Christine studies', I owe a great debt of thanks to the following colleagues either for their kindness in making their work available to me prior to publication or for their helpful advice: Angus J. Kennedy, Ann J. Kettle, Christine M. Laennec, Nadia Margolis, Glenda McLeod and Katharina M. Wilson, Karen Pratt, Benjamin Semple and Margarete Zimmermann. I am particularly grateful to Liliane Dulac for her generosity in giving me access to her extensive library when I was just starting out on this study, for her invaluable help on various articles which have been incorporated into it, for her inspirational scholarly works in the ®eld, and for her friendship. This book is fondly dedicated to her. I am, above all, indebted to Steve Rigby for his unfailing support, critical rigour, and constant willingness to comment on innumerable draft versions of this book. The above are, of course, absolved of all responsibility for what follows. x © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information Abbreviations The following list of abbreviations includes the most frequently cited works by Christine de Pizan and other medieval authors as well as key secondary studies on Christine. Lack of space precludes the provision of a bibliography of all other primary and secondary sources but full bibliographical details of each item are given the ®rst time it is cited in each chapter. works by christine de pizan Avison: Lavision-Christine: Introduction and Text, ed. Sister Mary Louis Towner, The Catholic University of America Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures, 6 (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America, 1932). CiteÂ: Maureen Cheney Curnow, `The Livre de la Cite des Dames of Christine de Pisan: a Critical Edition', 2 vols. (unpublished PhD dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1975). DeÂbat: Christine de Pisan, Jean Gerson, Jean de Montreuil, Gontier and Pierre Col, Le DeÂbat sur le Roman de la Rose, ed. Eric Hicks, BibliotheÁque du XVe SieÁcle, 43 (Paris: Champion, 1977). Dieu d'Amours: Poems of Cupid, God of Love; Christine de Pizan's `Epistre au dieu d'Amours' and `Dit de la Rose'; Thomas Hoccleve's `The Letter of Cupid'; George Sewell's `The Proclamation of Cupid', ed. and trans. Thelma S. Fenster and Mary Carpenter Erler (Leiden: Brill, 1990). Duc des vrais amans: Christine de Pizan: Le livre du duc des vrais amans, ed. Thelma S. Fenster, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 124 (Binghampton, New York: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1995). Fais et bonnes meurs: Le Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V, ed. Suzanne Solente, 2 vols. (Paris: Champion, 1936±40). Mutacion: Le Livre de la mutacion de Fortune, ed. Suzanne Solente, 4 vols. (Paris: Picard, 1959±66). OtheÂa: Halina D. Loukopoulos, `Classical Mythology in the Works of Christine de Pisan, with an Edition of L'Epistre OtheÂa from the xi © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information List of abbreviations Manuscript Harley 4431' (unpublished PhD dissertation, Wayne State University, 1977). Paix: Le `Livre de la Paix' of Christine de Pisan: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes, ed. Charity Cannon Willard (The Hague: Mouton, 1958). Policie: Le Livre du corps de Policie, ed. Robert H. Lucas, (Geneva: Droz, 1967). Trois Vertus: Le Livre des Trois Vertus, ed. Charity Cannon Willard and Eric Hicks, BibliotheÁque du XVe sieÁcle, 50 (Paris: Champion, 1989). works by other medieval authors Boccaccio on Poetry: Boccaccio on Poetry: Being the Preface and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Books of Boccaccio's Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, ed. and trans. Charles G. Osgood (Indianapolis/New York: The Library of Liberal Arts, 1956). Chavalier: Geoffroy de La Tour Landry, Le Livre du Chevalier de La Tour Landry pour l'enseignement de ses ®lles, ed. Anatole de Montaiglon (Paris: Jannet, 1854). City of God: St Augustine, Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans, trans. Henry Bettenson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972). Confessio Amantis: John Gower, Confessio Amantis, in The English Works of John Gower, ed. G. C. Macaulay, Early English Texts Society, extra series 81, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, reprinted 1957). De Casibus: Giovanni Boccaccio, De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, ed. Pier Giorgio Ricci and Vittorio Zaccaria, in Tutte le opere di Giovanni Boccaccio, ed. Vittore Branca, vol. 9, I Classici Mondadori (Verona: Mondadori, 1970). De Doctrina Christiana: St Augustine, De Doctrina Christiana; ed. and trans. R. P. H. Green (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995). De Mulieribus: Giovanni Boccaccio, De Claris Mulieribus, ed. Vittorio Zaccaria, in Tutte le opere di Giovanni Boccaccio, ed. Vittore Branca, vol. 10, I Classici Mondadori (Verona: Mondadori, 1970). De Viris: Francesco Petrarca, De Viris Illustribus, ed. Guido Martellotti, 2 vols. (Florence: Sansoni, 1964). Lamentations: Les Lamentations de Matheolus et le Livre de Leesce de Jehan le FeÁvre, de Ressons, ed. A.-G. Van Hamel, 2 vols. (Paris: Emile Bouillon, 1892±1905). Livre des bonnes meurs: Jacques Legrand, Archiloge Sophie, Livre des bonnes meurs, ed. Evencio Beltran, BibliotheÁque du XVe sieÁcle, 49 (Paris: Champion, 1986). Menagier: Le Menagier de Paris, ed. Georgine E. Brereton and Janet M. Ferrier (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981). êuvres compleÁtes: Jean Gerson, êuvres compleÁtes, ed. P. Glorieux, 10 vols. (Paris: Desclee & Cie, 1968). Ovide moraliseÂ: `Ovide moraliseÂ': PoeÁme du commencement du quatorzieÁme sieÁcle, publie d'apreÁs tous les manuscrits connus, ed. C. de Boer, 5 vols. (Amsterdam: Johannes MuÈller, 1915±38). xii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information List of abbreviations Religieux: Le Religieux de St Denis: Chronique de Charles VI, ed. L. F. Bellaguet, Collection de documents ineÂdits sur l'histoire de la France, seÂrie 1, 6 vols. (Paris: BibliotheÁque Nationale, 1839±52). Rose: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, Le Roman de la Rose, ed. FeÂlix Lecoy, 3 vols., Classiques FrancËais du Moyen Age (Paris: Champion, 1965±70). Three Medieval Views: Three Medieval Views of Women: `La Contenance des fames', `Le Bien des fames', `Le Blasme des fames', ed. and trans. Gloria K. Fiero, Wendy Pfeffer and Mathe Allain (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1989). Vieil pelerin: Philippe de MeÂzieÁres, Le Songe du vieil pelerin of Philippe de MeÂzieÁres, Chancellor of Cyprus, ed. G. W. Coopland, 2 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1969). Woman Defamed: Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts, ed. Alcuin Blamires (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992). secondary sources on the works of christine de pizan Bornstein, Ideals: Ideals for Women in the Works of Christine de Pizan, ed. Diane Bornstein, Medieval and Renaissance Monograph Series, ed. Guy R. Mermier and Edelgard E. DuBruck, 1 (Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1981). Brabant, Politics: Politics, Gender and Genre: The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan, ed. Margaret Brabant (Boulder, Colorado/Oxford: Westview Press, 1992). Delany, ` ``Mothers'' ': Sheila Delany, ` ``Mothers to think back through'': Who are they? The ambiguous case of Christine de Pizan', in her Medieval Literary Politics: Shapes of Ideology (Manchester University Press, 1990), 88±103. Dulac and RibeÂmont, Une Femme: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Etudes reÂunies autour de Christine de Pizan, ed. Liliane Dulac and Bernard RibeÂmont (Orleans: Paradigme, 1995). Kennedy, Guide: Angus J. Kennedy, Christine de Pizan: A Bibliographical Guide (London: Grant and Cutler, 1984). Kennedy, Supplement: Angus J. Kennedy, Christine de Pizan: A Bibliographical Guide: Supplement I (London: Grant and Cutler, 1994). RibeÂmont, Sur le chemin: Sur le chemin de longue Âetude . . . Actes du colloque d'OrleÂans juillet 1995, ed. Bernard RibeÂmont, Etudes christiniennes, 3 (Paris: Champion, 1998). Richards Reinterpreting: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan, ed. Earl Jeffrey Richards et al. (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1992). Schibanoff, `Taking the gold': Susan Schibanoff, `Taking the gold out of Egypt: the art of reading as a woman', in Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart, eds., Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, xiii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521641942 - Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender Rosalind Brown-Grant Frontmatter More information List of abbreviations Texts and Contexts (Baltimore/London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 83±106. Willard, Life: Charity Cannon Willard, Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works (New York: Persea Books, 1984). Zimmermann and De Rentiis, City: The City of Scholars: New Approaches to Christine de Pizan, ed. Margarete Zimmermann and Dina De Rentiis, European Cultures: Studies in Literature and the Arts, 2 (New York/ Berlin: De Gruyter, 1994). xiv © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org