_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.
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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
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_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.
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