{"product_id":"9780140446890","title":"The Book of the City of Ladies","description":"A new translation of one of medieval Europe's most remarkable feminist texts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the City of Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e France's first professional woman of letters confronted head-on the misogyny of fourteenth-century Europe. Here, with the help of Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan constructs an allegorical city in which to defend womankind, using examples of female virtue and achievement both from the past and her own day as the stones with which to build the city's walls and towers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis key text in the history of feminism not only provides powerful positive images of women—ranging from warriors, inventors, and scholars to prophetesses, artists, and saints—but also offers fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture, which viewed female nature as wholly given up to vice. This Penguin Classics edition also includes a superb Introduction that sets the work within its historical and intellectual context, annotations, a Glossary, and a Bibliography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the City of Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e is the sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or, The Book of Three Virtues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Translated with an Introduction by Rosalind Brown-Grant \u003cp\u003e One of the most remarkable literary figures of medieval Europe, Christine de Pizan (1364-c. 1430) was born in Venice but spent most of her life in the court of Charles V of France, producing lyric poetry and a biography of Charles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosalind Brown-Grant is Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds, England.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008647807216,"sku":"9780140446890","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140446890_p0.jpg?v=1763642572","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140446890","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}