The honor of being a pioneer, of paving the way to something, is usually much disputed. Today we are going to see a female case, that of the considered first female professional writer in the western ...

Dystopian fiction remains fairly popular, with many such stories— The Handmaid’s Tale, Man in the High Castle, and Silo, to ...

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On Wednesday, September 18, the Friends of PUL’s own Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski will reveal the story of Venice-born French writer Christine de Pizan (c. 1364-c. 1430). Raised in an intellectual ...

Studies in Philology, Vol. 112, No. 4 (Fall, 2015), pp. 680-697 (18 pages) Although it seems likely that Hoccleve's translation of Christine de Pizan's Epistre au dieu d'Amours was motivated by his ...

Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion examines the evolution of Christine's thought on true and false opinion. She reflected deeply on the subject of opinion while analyzing, evaluating, challenging, ...

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In her work, Taylor Swift has taken inspiration from women of the past, including actress Clara Bow, socialite Rebekah Harkness and her grandmother Marjorie Finlay, who was an opera singer. But ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But sometimes I wonder what the 34-year-old pop star would think of the life and work ...