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by
Glenda McLeod (Translator),
Charity Cannon Willard (Translator)

Christine de Pizan’s ‘The Vision’ is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry V’s invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the author’s own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found itself in 1405, and offers a possible future, calling for its resolution in the voice of a prophet. Alongside her documentation of the difficulties faced by a medieval woman left widowed early in life, she also explores issues of gender and authorship, interpretation and misinterpretation in her remarkable career as a writer and advisor of princes. Glenda McLeod is Professor Emerita, Gainesville State College; Charity Cannon Willard was Professor Emerita, Ladycliff College.

Number of Pages: 199Dimensions: 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 INPublication Date: March 15, 2012