An Annotated Bibliography of Printed and Online Primary Sources for the Middle Ages

Christine de Pizan
lived c. 1363-1434

Christine de Pizan was born in Venice in 1363 but moved to Paris at the age of five when her father was appointed as an astrologer to King Charles V. She married at the age of fourteen but was widowed only ten years later with three children. She turned to writing as a means to support her family. She was greatly involved in the literary debate known as the “Querelle du Roman de la Rose,” which debated the depiction of women in Jean de Meun’s the “Romance of the Rose.” Her most well-known works are The Book of the City of Ladies and The Treasure of the City of Ladies, or The Book of the Three Virtues. She died in Paris in 1434. TLM

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OMSB Records by Christine de Pizan:

• Forhan, Kate Langdon, ed., trans., The Book of the Body Politic (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994).
• Byles, Alfred Thomas Plested, ed., The Book of Fayttes of Armes and of Chyualrye (Early English Text Society Original Series 189, 1932 [Rpt. 2002]).
• Petroff, Elizabeth Alvilda, ed., Medieval Women's Visionary Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
• Fenster, Thelma S., trans.; Margolis, Nadia, trans., The Book of the Duke of True Lovers (New York: Persea Books, 1991).
• Blamires, Alcuin, ed; Pratt, Karen ed.; Marx, C.W. ed., Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).
• Altmann, Barbara K., ed., trans.; Palmer, R. Barton, ed., trans., An Anthology of Medieval Love Debate Poetry (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006).
• Chance, Jane, ed., Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector (Library of Medieval Women. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1990).
• Brown-Grant, Rosalind, trans., The Book of the City of Ladies (New York: Penguin Classics, 1999).
• Lawson, Sarah, trans., The Treasure of the City of Ladies, or The Book of the Three Virtues (New York: Penguin Classics, 1985).
• Roy, Maurice, ed., Oeuvres poétiques de Christine de Pisan. 2 vols. (Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot et Cie, 1886).
• Willard, Sumner, trans.; Willard, Charity, ed., The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry (University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999).
• Taylor, Craig, ed., trans., Joan of Arc: La Pucelle (Manchester: Manchester University Press [Manchester Medieval Sources Series], 2006).