Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- I Bibliographies and Manuscript Catalogues
- II General Surveys of Christine de Pizan’s Life and Work
- III Studies of Specific Topics
- IV Anthologies, Selections, and Collected Critical Studies
- V Individual Works: Manuscripts, Editions, Translations, and Critical Studies
- VI Reviews of Items Listed in Kennedy, 899
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Authors, Translators, Artists, and Titles, Pre-1630
- Index of Scholars
- Index of Items Listed in Chapter VI, Supplements 1 and 2
II - General Surveys of Christine de Pizan’s Life and Work
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- I Bibliographies and Manuscript Catalogues
- II General Surveys of Christine de Pizan’s Life and Work
- III Studies of Specific Topics
- IV Anthologies, Selections, and Collected Critical Studies
- V Individual Works: Manuscripts, Editions, Translations, and Critical Studies
- VI Reviews of Items Listed in Kennedy, 899
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Authors, Translators, Artists, and Titles, Pre-1630
- Index of Scholars
- Index of Items Listed in Chapter VI, Supplements 1 and 2
Summary
(a) Short Notices
See also Echtermann, 1083; Krueger in 1151; Kennedy, 1431; Hicks & Moreau, 1458. Selected entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias are often listed without comment, though it should be noted that collectively they testify to the current vogue of interest in CP. Items are listed chronologically, and alphabetically by author within a given year.
916 Lanson, Gustave. Histoire de la littérature française, Paris: Hachette, 11e éd., 1909, 1204pp.
First published 1894. Lanson’s notorious assessment of CP is on pp. 165–66. ‘Ne nous arrêtons pas à l’excellente Christine Pisan [sic], bonne fille, bonne épouse, bonne mère, du reste un des plus authenthiques bas-bleus qu’il y ait dans notre littérature, la première de cette insupportable lignée de femmes auteurs, à qui nul ouvrage sur aucun sujet ne coûte, et qui pendant toute la vie que Dieu leur prête, n’ont affaire que de multiplier les preuves de leur infatigable facilité, égale à leur universelle médiocrité.’
917 *Riesch, Helene. ‘Christine de Pizan, die erste “Frauenrechtlerin” ’, in Frauengeist der Vergangenheit: Biographisch-literarische Studien, Freiberg: Herdersche, 1915, pp. 29–48.
Listed in Yenal, 506 (no 588) and Schimmer, 1436, p. 75.
918 *Lownsbery, Eloise. Saints and Rebels, New York: Longmans Green, 1937, ix + 356pp.
Includes section on CP.
919 *Liebertz-Grün, Ursula. ‘Eine Vordenkerin der europäischer Geistesgeschichte: Hinweise auf Christine de Pisan’, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 127 (2–3 June, 1984).
920 Strubel, Armand. ‘Christine de Pisan’, in Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française, ed. Jean-Pierre de Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty, & Alain Rey, I, Paris: Bordas, 1987, pp. 482–83.
921 Berthelot, Anne, & François Cornilliat. Littérature, Moyen Âge, XVIe siècle: textes et documents, Paris: Nathan, 1988, pp. 179–82.
922 Liebertz-Grün, Ursula. ‘Höfische Autorinnen: von der karolingischen Kulturreform bis zum Humanismus’, in Deutsche Literatur von Frauen, I: vom Mittelalter bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts, ed. Gisela Brinker-Gabler, München: C. H. Beck, 1988, pp. 49–54.
923 Echols, Anne, & Marty Williams. An Annotated Index of Medieval Women, New York and Princeton: MarkusWiener; Oxford: Berg, 1990, xxiv + 635pp.
CP, pp. 115–16.
Rev.: .1 Christine Reno, Libraries & Culture, 32 (1997), 251–52.
924 Willard, Charity C. ‘Christine de Pizan’, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers, ed. Katharina M. Wilson, London: St James Press, 1991, 2 vols, 1389pp.
CP, II, pp. 990–92.
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- Christine de PizanA Bibliographical Guide: Supplement 2, pp. 5 - 9Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004