![]() ![]() “The first work in praise and defense of women.available for the first time in print and in modern English-here is a real book event. ![]() In this edition, the acclaimed Richards translation of the authoritative Harley 4431 manuscript is updated to correspond to Richard's critical edition of the original medieval French text the Introduction is augmented to cover the latest scholarship and a completely new Foreword by the historian Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University, is added. In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral quality with men. Translated by Earl Jeffrey Richards Foreword By Natalie Zemon Davis ![]()
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