Website:
http://www.mla.org/radio
Additional Credits and Funding:
Technical Director: Duke Markos, Production Coordinator: Lee Morgan
Timely on:
March: Women's History Month
Tones:
Authoritative,
Engaging,
Polished
Language:
English
Description:
_The City of Ladies_ draws on women's stories from myth, history, and religion and makes an eloquent case for the validity of female authority and experience. On this program, Renata Blumenfeld-Kosinski explores Christine's accomplishment in _The City of Ladies_; Mary Beth Rose suggests that Christine's defense of female experience in the book influenced powerful women in later eras; and Jennifer Summit traces the fate of _The City of Ladies_ after Christine de Pisan's death.
Well-suited to Women's History Month in March
Photo: Building the City of Ladies (A detail from the Harley 4431 manuscript of Christine de Pisan's _The Book of the City of Ladies_, Paris 1410-1411)
Photo by permission of the British Library
Fifteen- and thirty-second promos available.
