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Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France

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Evaluates Christine de Pizan’s literary engagement with fifteenth-century French politics. Locates the writer’s works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions.


Note on Translations and Manuscripts

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Chapter 1: Christine and the Armagnac-Burgundian Feud: Kingship and Regency

Chapter 2: The Beginnings of the Feud and Christine’s Political Poetry, 1393-1401

Chapter 3: The Point of No Return and the Political Allegories, 1401-1404

Chapter 4: The Entrance of Jean of Burgundy and Reconfiguring Regency, 1405

Chapter 5: Heading Toward Showdown and the Prose Treatises, 1405-1407

Chapter 6: The Great Feud, After 1407

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“In an earlier book, Tracy Adams did great service to the scholarly community by helping dispel the outdated, slanderous fictions surrounding the lives of Isabeau of Bavaria and Louis of Orleans. In this work she continues to apply recent historical research to the task of developing new readings of Christine de Pizan. The result is an up-to-date and very readable history of the conflict between the Burgundians and Armagnacs that offers insightful readings of all of Christine's major works and enhances our understanding of her allegiances and the ways in which her texts responded to the conflict.”

—Karen Green, Monash University

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