Product Description: The last of Christine de Pizan's book-length allegories, The Vision [L'Avision] was written at a time of tumult in both the history of France and Christine's own professional life. It 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...read more

Examines the harmful effects of sexual abuse on sexual development and behavior, and offers its adult victims a program to rebuild their sexual identity and help them enjoy healthy sexual relationships (view table of contents)

Product Description: A compilation of the great 15th century French writer, Christine de Pizan's most important works rendered into English by major scholars and translators. With an introduction by the foremost authority on de Pizan, Charity Cannon Willard...read more

A biography of France's first woman of letters discusses her major writings on politics, literature, bookmaking, illustration, and life in early-fifteenth-century France

A fifteenth-century instruction book for women provides an inside look at life in medieval France and discusses the role of women on each economic level