Susan Stoderl
- Mar 21
- 2 min
Christine de Pizan | Not the Ordinary Woman Writer
The Book of the Body of Policy was the first political treatise written by a woman c. 1407. It counsels the knights, noblemen, and common...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 14
- 1 min
Christine de Pizan | Biographical Details of a Medieval Woman Writer’s Life and Learning
One characteristic of Christine de Pizan’s writing is the number of autobiographi-cal details she included in all of her various genres...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 7
- 2 min
Christine de Pizan (1364-1430) | First Paid Woman Writer
Many years ago, I discovered the medieval writer Christine de Pizan (also spelled Pisan) (1364-1430) when doing research for an opera...