Susan Stoderl
- Mar 28, 2023
- 2 min
Christine de Pizan | Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orléans
"The Poem of Joan of Arc" is dated July 31, 1429, and was the first poem to honor the historic Jeanne d’Arc. Several legends attributed...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 21, 2023
- 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...