Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France
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Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France

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Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Note on Translations and Manuscripts
  6. Prologue
  7. Notes to Prologue
  8. Chapter 1: Christine and the Armagnac-Burgundian Feud: Regency and Kingship
  9. Notes to Chapter 1
  10. Chapter 2: The Beginnings of the Feud and Christine’s Political Poetry, 1393–1401
  11. Notes to Chapter 2
  12. Chapter 3: The Point of No Return and the Political Allegories, 1401–1404
  13. Notes to Chapter 3
  14. Chapter 4: Jean of Burgundy and Reconfiguring Regency, 1405
  15. Notes to Chapter 4
  16. Chapter 5: Reading Toward Showdown and the Prose Treatises, 1405–1407
  17. Notes to Chapter 5
  18. Chapter 6: The Great Feud, After 1407
  19. Notes to Chapter 6
  20. Epilogue
  21. Notes to Epilogue
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. COVER Back