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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

剋裏斯蒂娜•德•皮桑是歐洲中世紀作傢，她極力反對中世紀藝術中對女性的汙衊和偏見，她是歐洲曆史上第一位以寫作維生的女性作傢。她的作品體裁多樣，有詩歌、小說、史詩、傳記等，內容涉及政治、軍事、教育、倫理、女性問題等諸多方麵，是中世紀法國宮廷一位非常有名的作傢。她的作品被翻譯成多種語言，流傳到很多國傢，影響甚遠，尤其是她的婦女觀，對法國宮廷女性及歐洲其他國傢的社會上層女性産生很大影響。