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Christine de Pizan and the fight for France

Title
Christine de Pizan and the fight for France / Tracy Adams.
Author
Adams, Tracy, 1959-
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]

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Description
xi, 220 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Christine and the Armagnac-Burgundian feud: regency and kingship -- The beginnings of the feud and Christine's political poetry, 1393-1401 -- The point of no return and the political allegories, 1401-1404 -- Jean of Burgundy and reconfiguring regency, 1405 -- Heading toward showdown and the prose treatises, 1405-1407 -- The great feud, after 1407.
Call Number
JFE 14-7606
ISBN
  • 9780271050713 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0271050713 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2014017173
OCLC
880500110
Author
Adams, Tracy, 1959- author.
Title
Christine de Pizan and the fight for France / Tracy Adams.
Publisher
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
To 1500
Research Call Number
JFE 14-7606
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