A Medieval French Book in an Early Modern English World
Christine de Pisan’s Livre de la Cité des Dames and Women Readers in the Age of Print
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Beth Long (0000-0002-1824-6717, Ouachita Baptist University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 521-537 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00900.x |
| OpenAlex | W1561086470 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes is Bryan Anslay’s 1521 translation of Christine de Pisan’s Le Livre de la Cité des Dames . Its form as an English printed book had implications for its readership and reception: Christine’s emphases on rhetoric, reading, and scholarship dovetailed with the spread in England of more accessible books and education. Given the cultural context of the early sixteenth century – a time during which print was beginning to compete with manuscript, women were becoming an important segment of the market for books, and Protestant values were negotiating coexistence with Catholic culture – we can deduce that Anslay’s version of Christine’s text resonated more strongly with sixteenth‐century English readers than the original did with its fifteenth‐century French audience, gaining more sympathy for Christine’s goal of elevating the status of women
Art · Audience measurement · Context (archaeology · Fifteenth · Linguistics · Literature · Middle English · Political science · Print culture · Protestantism · Reading (process · Rhetoric · Scholarship · Theology · Classics · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance Literature and Culture
The Culture of Print
Saints' Lives and Women's Literary Culture, 1150-1300
An Empire of Her Own
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Symbolic Caxton
Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700
Virgin Martyrs
The Medieval Invasion of Early-Modern England
General Introduction
Her Life Historical
The Myth of Print Culture
Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages
Christine de Pizan
The Chester Cycle in Sixteenth-Century Religious Culture
The Imaginary “Commons”
The Modern Divide
Politics, Patronage, and Piety in the Work of Osbern Bokenham
On the Margin
The Growth of English Education, 1348-1648
Christine de Pizan, Isabeau of Bavaria, and Female Regency
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |