The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pizan
The Book of the City of Ladies, Christine de Pizan
The Book of the City of Ladies is framed as a ‘dream-vision’. In it, the narrator describes how she was sitting in her study reading The Lamentations of Matheolus, a 13th-century tirade against women and marriage. She is saddened by this depiction of women and falls into a trance. In this trance, she builds a metaphorical city which will house a group of worthy heroines and protect women against attack.
Christine constructs the city’s walls and towers, such that the Book itself becomes the fabled city. The text belongs to a genre of literature known as a ‘biographical catalogue’, which celebrates the lives of famous figures from history and mythology.
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