author
de Pisan Christine
1363–1430
A groundbreaking medieval writer, she built a career with her pen and used it to challenge common ideas about women. Her work still stands out for its intelligence, wit, and remarkable independence.
8 Audiobooks
Les cent histoires de Troye : L'epistre de Othea deesse de prudence envoyee a l'esperit chevalereux Hector de Troye avec cent hystoires
by de Pisan Christine
Oeuvres poétiques Tome 2
by de Pisan Christine
Le trésor de la cité des dames de degré en degré et de tous estatz
by de Pisan Christine
Oeuvres poétiques Tome 1
by de Pisan Christine
The Book of the Duke of True Lovers
by de Pisan Christine
The epistle of Othea to Hector; or, The boke of knyghthode
by de Pisan Christine
L'art de chevalerie selon Vegece
by de Pisan Christine, Honoré Bonet, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Flavius Vegetius Renatus
L'avision de Christine
by de Pisan Christine
About the author
Born in Venice and raised at the French court, Christine de Pizan became one of the first women in Europe known to earn her living through writing. After being widowed young, she supported herself and her family by producing poetry, political works, biographies, and moral writings for powerful patrons in France.
She is especially remembered for defending women against the unfair stereotypes common in medieval literature. In works such as The Book of the City of Ladies, she imagined a symbolic city built by and for women, filled with examples of female wisdom, courage, and achievement.
Her writing also engaged directly with the politics and turmoil of her time, including the French court and the Hundred Years' War. That mix of literary skill, historical insight, and bold argument has made her one of the most important and widely read voices of the late Middle Ages.