Table of contents for Christine de Pizan : a casebook / edited by Barbara K. Altmann and Deborah L. McGrady.

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Foreword
   Charity Cannon Willard                                         xi
 1. Introduction
   Barbara K. Altmann and Deborah L. McGrady                      1

Part I Christine in Context
 2. Christine de Pizan and the Political Life in Late Medieval
   France
   Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski                                     9
 3. Christine de Pizan as Translator and Voice of the Body
   Politic
   Lori J. Walters                                               25
 4. Somewhere between Destructive Glosses and Chaos:
   Christine de Pizan and Medieval Theology
   Earl Jeffrey Richards                                         43
 5. Christine de Pizan: Memory's Architect
   Margarete Zimmermann                                          57

Part II Building a Female Community
 6. Christine de Pizan as a Defender of Women
   Rosalind Brown-Grant                                          81



 7. Christine's Treasure: Women's Honor and Household
    Economies in the Livre des trois vertus
    Roberta L. Krueger                                           101
 8. Who's a Heroine? The Example of Christine de Pizan
    Thelma Fenster                                               115
 9. Le Livre de la cite des dames: Reconfiguring Knowledge
    and Reimagining Gendered Space
    Judith L. Kellogg                                            129

Part III Christine's Writings
10. Love as Metaphor in Christine de Pizan's Ballade Cycles
   Tracy Adams                                                  149
11. The Querelle de la Rose and the Ethics of Reading
   Marilynn Desmond                                             167
12. The Lessons of Experience and the Chemin de long estude
   Andrea Tarnowski                                             181
13. The Livre de l'advision Cristine
   Liliane Dulac and Christine Reno                             199
14. "Nous deffens de feu,... de pestilence, de guerres":
   Christine de Pizan's Religious Works
   Maureen Boulton                                              215

Part IV Christine's Books
15. Christine and the Manuscript Tradition
   James Laidlaw                                                231
16. Modern Editions: Makers of the Christinian Corpus
   Nadia Margolis                                               251

Bibliography                                                     271

Contributors                                                     287

Index                                                            291