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	Book of the 10th Muse: Imagined Worlds
		As Lady Happy's plans evolve, however, she loses herself in the amassing of all things pleasing to women; besides lavishly furnished interior spaces, Madam Mediator relates that there are lovely groves, ponds, and orchards within the walls of the convent.
		She creates a world where beauty pardons all; throughout the book, the author comments on the disarming physical beauty of the women who are telling the disenchantments, even saying that the men were lulled into accepting the ladies's criticism because their loveliness was so overwhelming.
		Lady Happy deems herself the Confessor so that she can grant whichever pardons are necessary to solidify the hierarchy within the already-stratified society.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Comparative_Literature/10th_muse_book/allison_imagin_worlds.html (4012 words)

	The Book of the City of Ladies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Book of the City of Ladies (1405) was Christine de Pizan's response to Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris ("Concerning Famous Women"), as well being part of a larger intellectual discussion in that era centered around works such as the "Romance of the Rose" by Jean de Mehun.
		Pizan presents an allegorical society in which the word "lady" is defined as a woman of noble spirit, instead of noble birth.
		The book deals with a number of women of past eras, mostly saints, whom Pizan wished to offer as examples of the potential that women had to lead noble lives and contribute to society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Book_of_the_City_of_Ladies (220 words)

	The Book Of The City Of Ladies - Christine de Pizan - Penguin UK
		Christine recounts how the lady who had spoken to her told her who she was, what her function and purpose was, and how she prophesied that Christine would build a city with the help of the three ladies.
		How, before the lady revealed her name, she spoke at greater length about the city which Christine was destined to build, and explained that she was entrusted with the task of helping her to construct the enclosure and external walls.
		Christine tells how the third lady revealed her name and outlined what her role was, then explained that she would help to finish off the high turrets of the towers and palaces and would bring Christine a queen for her city accompanied by a host of noble ladies.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140446890,00.html?sym=TAB (1528 words)

	SparkNotes: The Book of the City of Ladies: Context
		SparkNotes: The Book of the City of Ladies: Context
		The Book of the City of Ladies, as a philosophical treatise, can be seen as directly answering the writer Jean de Meun, who between 1269 and 1278 wrote a more than 17,000-line continuation of Guillaume de Lorris’s epic poem The Romance of the Rose, initially completed in the 1230s.
		The permanent residents of the City of Ladies are united and strong.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/cityladies/context.html (835 words)

	The Book of the City of Ladies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		i read this book at a point when i wanted to graduate with honors at my university and had to read like 20 or so "great" books.
		i had never heard of this book, but it was on the list, so i picked it up and began reading it.
		i was honestly surprised by the beginning of the book, which started well.
	www.duchs.com /isbn/0892552301 (93 words)

	From Christine de Pizan
		Here Christine tells how the lady who had said this showed her who she was and what her character and function were, and told her how she would construct a city with the help of these same three ladies.
		Such was the discourse of that great lady, in whose presence I do not know which one of my senses was more charmed: my hearing from having listened to such worthy words or my sight from having seen her radiant beauty, her attire, her reverent comportment, and her noble countenance.
		Here the lady speaks to Christine of the city which she has been commissioned to build and how she was charged to help Christine build the wall and enclosure, and then gives her name.
	academic.udayton.edu /BradHume/hst307/pizan.htm (3684 words)

	Yoga Darsana Institute \| Current Shop - The Book of the City of Ladies
		Her "Book of the City of Ladies" is definitely our net gain, though, since we can appreciate the beauty of well-applied talent.
		It is interesting to note that her book had not been translated into English since 1521, a neglect of 461 years until this 1982 version by Earl Jeffrey Richards.
		When Christine de Pizan wrote The Book of The City of Ladies, her intention was to defend women from attacks brought on by a popular novel called The Romance of the Rose.
	www.yogadarsana.org /buy-0892552301.html (731 words)

	Christine de Pizan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Christine de Pizan presenting her book to Isabelle of Bavaria, surrounded by the ladies of the court, from the British Library's Harley 4431 manuscript, f.3.
		Her response, The Book of the City of Ladies, is perhaps the first example of a woman reworking and imagining history on her own terms.
		The Book of the City of Ladies marks the beginning of a three-century long debate on the status of women, known as the querelle des femmes, from which many of our modern notions on female subjectivity and history are drawn.
	www.uweb.ucsb.edu /~schess/courses/christine (2499 words)

	Christine de Pizan
		City of Ladies is divided into three sections in which Christine builds her symbolic city for women.
		Her book honored all kinds of great women and gave them a place to be safe from the attacks of men.
		While her work was certainly original, the author tends to disregard the fact that City of Ladies did not result in any large change in thinking, nor did a large number of women read it.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/chrisdp.html (2285 words)

	Focus Paper #1-Book of City of Ladies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ryan Layman Robyn Zalewski Alex Abrami Pete Cernosia Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies, the author’s intent is to establish a new philosophical foundation to counter the overwhelming misogyny of her male predecessors.
		In construction of the city it is her job to build the roads, as well as the structures, such as houses, temples, and other means of living to make the city livable.
		The metaphor of The Book of the City of Ladies was aptly chosen, for it provides a solid method of explaining the birth of a new school of thought that would champion the improvement of conditions for women.
	academics.smcvt.edu /keverist/_ModernCiv/0000000e.htm (428 words)

	Spot Quotations
		In the same way, in the City of Ladies, Justice, Rectitude and Reason appear to Christine de Pizan, who is distraught that she was born a woman and not a man, convinced that “God formed a vile creature when He made woman” (1.1.1, p.
		As is illustrated by this quotation, the dark/light imagery is used frequently throughout the book, light tending to portray divine inspiration or purity, and darkness tending to portray ignorance or impurity.
		She in no way forsakes Christ in her construction of the City of Ladies, but she does break away from the misogynistic tradition of the Church and classical literature in general.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/regalado/christine/misc/5.htm (959 words)

	Group 9: Focus Paper #1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Book of the City of Ladies Christine de Pizan, a well-educated woman, believed that women are important, however, through her process of self-education, she read books and started to agree with her society in thinking that women are evil.
		In her book, The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pizan uses the metaphor of building a city to demonstrate the importance and greatness of women throughout history.
		In the second part of The Book of the City of Ladies, Rectitude helps to guide Christine and she is responsible for measuring things such as the streets, houses, and mansions.
	academics.smcvt.edu /keverist/_ModernCiv/00000015.htm (406 words)

	The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The BOOK itself serves as the city, the protection and community of good women who show that the defamatory collective statements about women (they are greedy, they are inconstant, they are not chaste, etc.) are not true.
		The book is structured around three ladies of heaven coming to visit Christine and charging her with building the City of Ladies.
		This book is distinct from "The Book of the Treasure of the City of Ladies".
	www.textkit.com /0_0140446893.html (1050 words)

	first_feminist
		Lady Reason begins by saying, "for the foundation and completion of this City you will draw fresh waters from us as from clear fountains, and we will bring you sufficient building stone, stronger and more durable than any marble with cement could be.
		Her defense of Christian marriage was a call for the highest form of moral commitment between a man and a woman and not an endorsement of institutionalized domination.
		Her view of women is not antithetically constructed; that is, her idealization of women does not represent an automatic antithesis to the demonization of women found in misogynist writes…She offers no counter cliches in her refutation but succeeds in showing through her mastery of the available examples that her opponents' arguments are specious.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /first_feminist.htm (1176 words)

	Effective Manifestations of Medieval Rhetoric and Their Implications for Professional Writing
		The writings I have chosen are De monarchia (Concerning the Monarchy) by Dante, Book One, Chapter One; The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, Book One, Chapter One; and, The Book of Margery Kempe, Book One, Chapter One.
		The Book of the City of Ladies, written in 1405, was her fourth book.
		Ultimately, the goal of the book is not to persuade or argue but to give evidence of her unique rhetoric stems from her purpose of the book.
	www.dosswerks.com /portfolio/Effect.htm (5119 words)

	SparkNotes: The Book of the City of Ladies: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
		The bricks with which she raises the city’s walls are the various and accumulating stories the Virtues offer as evidence of the constancy and purity of the female nature.
		The solidity of her logic is akin to the sturdy and stable city she has at the end of the book.
		Narration and the art of storytelling are central to The Book of the City of Ladies, which is essentially a collection of parables from which Christine draws various conclusions about the nature of women.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/cityladies/themes.html (1472 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Book of the City of Ladies Christine de Pizan was one of the first feminist authors in the history of literature.
		One such novel is The Book of the City of Ladies.
		To build her "City of Ladies", she piled up stories of women of courage, virtue and pride, helped by three noble allegorical women, Reason, Rectitude and Justice.
	www-english.lycos.com /info/christine-de-pizan.html (686 words)

	Book of the 10th Muse: Religion and Theology
		The City of Ladies is meant to protect women from suffering at the hands of men who attack women in the name of God.
		For example, the protagonist, Lady Happy, is the founder and chief Confessor of the re-imagined convent, where she works alongside female physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries (Cavendish 103).
		Lady Happy questions the virtue of a God who derives pleasure from men and women's sacrifice of pleasurable things.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Comparative_Literature/10th_muse_book/elizabeth_religion_theol.html (3585 words)

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		This lady was descended from the Phoenicians, who came from the hinterlands of Egypt to the land of Syria where they founded and built several noble cities and towns.
		This lady knew very well that the king was not at all loved by the barons nor by the people because of the atrocities and crimes he had perpetrated.
		And the lady spoke to them graciously and told them that, because of the good she had heard recounted about this country, they had come to live there, provided that the natives were agreed, who thereupon indicated their willingness.
	courses.washington.edu /hum523/dido/pizan.html (1386 words)

	Professional Writing and the Middle Ages: An Exploration of Possible Research - <i>The Book of City of Ladies</i> ...
		This book was the precursor to the City of Ladies.
		The city has been built and is ready to house the most supreme women of all, with the Virgin Mary as Queen of the city.
		Her conversation with Lady Justice, extoller of judgement of good and evil, is appropriate as the final impression that she meant to leave on her reader.
	www.dosswerks.com /portfolio/Depiz.htm (2740 words)

	Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, 1405
		Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, 1405
		The Book of the City of Ladies consists of a didactic exchange between Christine and three allegorical interlocutors, the virtues Reason, Rectitude, and Justice.
		Sunshine for Women encourages you to support our feminist sisters by purchasing their books, reading them, disseminating the ideas they contain, but most especially, by making their book available to our sisters, our daughters, and the community at large by requesting your school library, your public library, and area bookstores to carry their books.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/book-sum/pizan2.html (2559 words)

	New York City - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Okay, the placement of the article at "City of New York" was supposed to be temporary, until we worked out what was going on with US city names generally.
		Then, of course, there are people who are born in New York City but who leave fairly early in life and generally aren't associated with the city (Norman Rockwell).
		Every other city and town in the United States list the state, both in other cases where the state name is implicit (Oregon City, Oregon, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, etc.) and in other major cities where one might expect people to know its location (Washington, D.C. Seattle, Washington).
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /new_york,_new_york.htm (5199 words)

	Amazon.com: The Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics): Books: Christine de Pizan,Rosalind Brown-Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This book is distinct from "The Book of the Treasure of the City of Ladies".
		THE BOOK OF THE CITY OF LADIES by Christine de Pizan is an allegory written in the early 1400s as an effort to defend womankind from spurious attacks by the male gender.
		The book is structured around three ladies of heaven coming to visit Christine and charging her with building the City of Ladies.
	www.amazon.com /Book-City-Ladies-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140446893 (2498 words)

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		This book is perhaps Christine's most read book and the book most attached to her name.
		Lady Reason states that God made Adam from mud of the field of Damascus, and that after he was created Adam was taken to The terrestrial Paradise.
		Warner, Marina, foreword to The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan, trans.
	faculty.msmc.edu /lindeman/piz5.html (867 words)

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		The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pisan (b.
		One day as I was sitting alone in my study surrounded by books on all kinds of subjects, devoting myself to literary studies, my usual habit, my mind dwelt at length on the weighty opinions of various authors whom I had studied for a long time.
		But just the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men--and learned men among them--have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking adn in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behavior.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~amtower/Christine.html (1146 words)

	The Voices of Medieval Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Christine, The Book of the City of Ladies, Book I, chapts.
		The Book of the City of Ladies, Book II, Chapts.
		The Book of Margery Kempe, Introduction and Chapts.
	www.towson.edu /~fnewman/377sylfall01doc.htm (749 words)

	Amazon.com: The Book of the City of Ladies: Books: Christine De Pizan,Earl Jeffrey Richards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Using the narrative device of a dialogue between the author and several allegorical figures, the narrator first digs her foundation for a city by defending women against the allegations of lack of intelligence, virtue, strength, and bravery, then builds her walls with an astonishing number of examples of women who disprove all popular misconceptions.
		Her "Book of the City of Ladies" is definitely our net gain, though, since we can appreciate the beauty of well-applied talent.
		When Christine de Pizan wrote The Book of The City of Ladies, her intention was to defend women from attacks brought on by a popular novel called The Romance of the Rose.
	www.amazon.com /Book-City-Ladies-Christine-Pizan/dp/0892552301 (1599 words)

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