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A new translation of one of medieval Europe's most remarkable feminist texts.

In The Book of the City of Ladies France's first professional woman of letters confronted head-on the misogyny of fourteenth-century Europe. Here, with the help of Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan constructs an allegorical city in which to defend womankind, using examples of female virtue and achievement both from the past and her own day as the stones with which to build the city's walls and towers.

This key text in the history of feminism not only provides powerful positive images of women--ranging from warriors, inventors, and scholars to prophetesses, artists, and saints--but also offers fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture, which viewed female nature as wholly given up to vice. This Penguin Classics edition also includes a superb Introduction that sets the work within its historical and intellectual context, annotations, a Glossary, and a Bibliography.

The Book of the City of Ladies is the sequel to The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or, The Book of Three Virtues

Translated with an Introduction by Rosalind Brown-Grant

克里斯蒂娜•德•皮桑是欧洲中世纪作家，她极力反对中世纪艺术中对女性的污蔑和偏见，她是欧洲历史上第一位以写作维生的女性作家。她的作品体裁多样，有诗歌、小说、史诗、传记等，内容涉及政治、军事、教育、伦理、女性问题等诸多方面，是中世纪法国宫廷一位非常有名的作家。她的作品被翻译成多种语言，流传到很多国家，影响甚远，尤其是她的妇女观，对法国宫廷女性及欧洲其他国家的社会上层女性产生很大影响。