Christine de Pizan

In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women. She uses examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and provides arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to men. The Book of the City of Ladies is translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards...

An early Tudor translation of the Cité des dames, a crucial argument written by Christine de Pizan on the importance of women. Christine de Pizan's defence of women against centuries of misogyny, Cité des dames, was the only work of literature translated into English by Brian Anslay, an administrator in the household of King Henry VII. While numerous manuscripts were...