The Women of the Rose

✍ Scribed by Sara Estey

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 90 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B086GGHVXC

✦ Synopsis

Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Volume Editor's Bibliography; I. Christine and the Rose before the Debate; II. The Debate: First Phase; III. The Debate: Second Phase; IV. Aftermath; V. Christine's Later Mentions of the Romance of the Rose; Series Editors' Bibliography; Index of People and Places; Index of Allegorical Personifications and Mythological and Fictional Characters.;In 1401, Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?), one of the most renowned and prolific woman writers of the Middle Ages, wrote a letter to the provost of Lille criticizing the highly popular and widely read Romance of the Rose for its blatant and unwarranted misogynistic depictions of women. The debate that ensued, over not only the merits of the treatise but also of the place of women in society, started Europe on the long path to gender parity. Pizan's criticism sparked a continent-wide discussion of issues that is still alive today in disputes about art and morality, especially the civic responsib.