{"product_id":"the-vision-of-christine-de-pizan-9781843842989","title":"The Vision of Christine de Pizan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslation of Christine's autobiographical Vision, both dealing with her own life and career, and offering a possible solution to the troubled state of France at the time.  Christine de Pizan's The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry V's invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the author's own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found itself in 1405, and offers a possible future, callingfor its resolution in the voice of a prophet. Alongside her documentation of the difficulties faced by a medieval woman left widowed early in life, she also explores issues of gender and authorship, interpretation and misinterpretation in her remarkable career as a writer and advisor of princes.    Glenda McLeod is Professor Emerita, Gainesville State College; Charity Cannon Willard was Professor Emerita, Ladycliff College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new rendering into modern English, with its excellent essays and scholarly bibliography, will certainly be read with great profit. * MEDIUM AEVUM *\u003cbr\u003eEssential. * CHOICE *","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51618902868311,"sku":"9781843842989","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781843842989.jpg?v=1756904118","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-vision-of-christine-de-pizan-9781843842989","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}