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In English
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Description:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Manuscripts -- Prologue -- 1. Christine and the Armagnac-Burgundian Feud: Regency and Kingship -- 2. The Beginnings of the Feud and Christine’s Political Poetry, 1393–1401 -- 3. The Point of No Return and the Political Allegories, 1401–1404 -- 4. Jean of Burgundy and Reconfi guring Regency, 1405 -- 5. Heading Toward Showdown and the Prose Treatises, 1405–1407 -- 6. The Great Feud, After 1407 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan’s literary engagement with contemporary politics. Adams locates Christine’s works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions in fifteenth-century France. Contrary to what many scholars have long believed, Christine consistently supported the Armagnac faction throughout her literary career and maintained strong ties to Louis of Orleans and Isabeau of Bavaria. By focusing on the historical context of the Armagnac-Burgundian feud at different moments and offering close readings of Christine’s poetry and prose, Adams shows the ways in which the writer was closely engaged with and influenced the volatile politics of her time