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Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France

Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France

Tracy Adams

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Penn State University Press
Año de edición:
2018
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Estudios literarios: clásicos, primitivos y medievales
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9780271064574
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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. 6

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