The Book of the City of Ladies

The Book of the City of Ladies Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Christine de Pizan, Rosalind Brown-Grant (editor). The Book of the City of Ladies. New York, NY: Penguin, 2000.
  • Wagner, Jill E. "Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies: A Monumental (Re) construction of, by, and for Women of All Time." Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, vol. 44, no. 1, 2008, pp. 69-80.

  • Verini, Alexandra. "Medieval Models of Female Friendship in Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies and Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe." Feminist Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, 2016, pp. 365-391.

  • Redfern, Jenny R. “Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies: A Medieval Rhetorician and Her Rhetoric.” Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition, edited by Andrea A. Lunsford, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995, pp. 73–92.

  • Nielsen, E. J. "Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies as Reclamatory Fan Work." Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 25, 2017.

  • Dufresne, Laura Rinaldi. "Women Warriors: A Special Case from the Fifteenth Century: The City of Ladies." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1994, pp. 111-131.