Christine de Pizan's Political Voice
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Anneliese L. Pollock Renck
Organizer Affiliation
Bucknell Univ.
Presider Name
Anneliese L. Pollock Renck
Paper Title 1
Liberalité as the Divine Virtue in the Good Prince in Le Livre du corps de policie
Presenter 1 Name
Margaret M. Gower
Presenter 1 Affiliation
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame
Paper Title 2
Politics and Emotions: Christine de Pizan and Charles V
Presenter 2 Name
Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Vermont
Paper Title 3
Unraveling Desire: Penelopean Textual Politics in Christine de Pizan's Cité des dames
Presenter 3 Name
Marcella L. Munson
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Florida Atlantic Univ.
Start Date
15-5-2015 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1335
Description
The study of Christine de Pizan has become a well-established topic in medieval studies in the last few decades. Christine's role in the querelle des femmes, her oversight of a large manuscript workshop, and her complex cultivation of networks of patronage have been the objects of protracted study. Recently, attention has been paid to Christine's intervention in contemporary politics, and on the effects of the author's literary works on the social and political realms in France.
This session seeks to examine the intersections of literary and political endeavors in Christine's life and works. How did her translations, for example, conceive of the French nation and perhaps even influence the monarch's actions? How did her depictions of imagined communities of women affect actual political and social realities? Did her interventions in the querelle des femmes substantially shape attitudes towards the female sex, or did they merely spark a literary debate?
Anneliese P. Renck
Christine de Pizan's Political Voice
Schneider 1335
The study of Christine de Pizan has become a well-established topic in medieval studies in the last few decades. Christine's role in the querelle des femmes, her oversight of a large manuscript workshop, and her complex cultivation of networks of patronage have been the objects of protracted study. Recently, attention has been paid to Christine's intervention in contemporary politics, and on the effects of the author's literary works on the social and political realms in France.
This session seeks to examine the intersections of literary and political endeavors in Christine's life and works. How did her translations, for example, conceive of the French nation and perhaps even influence the monarch's actions? How did her depictions of imagined communities of women affect actual political and social realities? Did her interventions in the querelle des femmes substantially shape attitudes towards the female sex, or did they merely spark a literary debate?
Anneliese P. Renck