Women Writers in Pre-Modern Times: Around Christine de Pizan

Conducted in French. Centered on the texts and the publishing activity of Christine de Pizan, a woman writer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, this course will cover three different aspects of poetic production at that time: lyric poetry, didactic literature and manuscript production. Comparing Christine's prolific activity with that of her peers and sources, we will study works of poetry and music, representations of love and loss, allegories of politics and learning, as well as manuscripts and publishing practices. We will pay special attention to the specific ways in which women writers represent themselves as authors.