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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821195503321

Autore

Adams Tracy <1959->

Titolo

Christine de Pizan and the fight for France / / Tracy Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-271-06575-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

841.2

Soggetti

Politics and literature - France - History - To 1500

France History Charles VI, 1380-1422

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Christine and the Armagnac-Burgundian feud: regency and kingship -- The beginnings of the feud and Christine's political poetry, 1393-1401 -- The point of no return and the political allegories, 1401-1404 -- Jean of Burgundy and reconfiguring regency, 1405 -- Heading toward showdown and the prose treatises, 1405-1407 -- The great feud, after 1407.

Sommario/riassunto

"Evaluates Christine de Pizan's literary engagement with fifteenth-century French politics. Locates the writer's works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions"--Provided by publisher.