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- Title
Chapter 6: Feminism and the Fall: Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, and Loui se Labé.
- Authors
Holderness, Julia Simms
- Abstract
Examines Giovanni Boccaccio's "De Claris Mulieribus," (1362), Christine de Pizan's "Cite des dames," (1405), and Louise Labe's "Oeuvres" (1555). Revision of the three books; Feminist debate about Semiramis, the mythical queen of Babylon who conquered new lands and seduced her own son; Author's argument that the revisions are not attempts to whitewash Semiramis' story; Illustration of the power of periodization as a rhetorical tool.
- Subjects
FEMINISM in literature; BOCCACCIO, Giovanni, 1313-1375; CHRISTINE, de Pisan, ca. 1364-ca. 1431; LABE, Louise, ca. 1526-1566; OEUVRES (Book); DE Claris Mulieribus (Book); CITE des Dames (Book); RHETORIC
- Publication
Essays in Medieval Studies, 2004, Vol 21, p97
- ISSN
1043-2213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ems.2005.0007