Christine De Pizan/Book of the Three Virtues

Abstract: A 7 page essay that summarizes and discusses this work by medieval feminist De Pizan, who was a learned and scholarly author during an age (e.g. the fifteenth century) when the vast majority of women, including aristocratic women, were denied formal education. In this text, De Pizan sets herself the goal of teaching women, in all walks of society, how to go about cultivating useful qualities in society, and in the process, become worthy of inhabiting the "City of Ladies," which she described in the first book. No additional sources cited.

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Subcatagory: Medieval Times

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