Note on Translations and Manuscripts
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Chapter 1: Christine and the Armagnac-Burgundian Feud: Kingship and Regency
Chapter 2: The Beginnings of the Feud and Christine’s Political Poetry, 1393-1401
Chapter 3: The Point of No Return and the Political Allegories, 1401-1404
Chapter 4: The Entrance of Jean of Burgundy and Reconfiguring Regency, 1405
Chapter 5: Heading Toward Showdown and the Prose Treatises, 1405-1407
Chapter 6: The Great Feud, After 1407
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Tracy Adams is Associate Professor of French at the University of Auckland.
“This book makes a valuable contribution to Christine studies and
related fields in its convincing presentation of many exhilarating
ideas and approaches to familiar but underquestioned material while
introducing new sources. The careful notes, bibliography, and
detailed index are all attractively produced. A pleasure to read,
it is highly recommended for levels ranging from undergraduates to
specialists in French history and literature.”—Nadia Margolis
Renaissance Quarterly
“This clear and thorough narrative of Christine's engagement with
the conflict will be of value to historians and literary scholars
alike.”—Charlotte E. Cooper French Studies
“A short review does not do justice to the significance of this
work. Adams successfully situates (’rehistoricizes’) a multifaceted
literary figure into an extraordinarily complex period in French
history, and does so with clarity and sensitivity, providing a most
helpful and stimulating resource for scholars and students.”—Kate
L. Forhan American Historical Review
“This book is very much one to keep at one’s elbow in any
undertaking concerned with the closing phases of the Hundred Years
War; it compels the reader to consider alternate ways of thinking.
Adams’s latest contribution to the field will appeal to Christinian
scholars and others interested in French history, the politics and
literature of political crisis, rumour and propaganda, monarchy,
queenship, gender and gendered discourse.”—Zita Eva Rohr Gender &
History
“[Tracy] Adams has given us a sophisticated presentation that in
turn happily gives us a much more complex Christine, but one that
could be more complex still by integrating the political Christine
back into the humanist and poet Christine. Readers, nonetheless,
will find much in this little volume of value that integrates
Christine’s writings into her fraught and troubled world, and shows
us how integrated this world was with Christine’s mind.”—Gary W.
Jenkins Sixteenth Century Journal
“Adams’s analysis is original and deserves to be widely
read.”—Stephen H. Rigby English Historical Review
“By opening up her literary production to a fresh set of
interpretive possibilities, and by asking readers to question their
assumptions and accepted narratives about Christine’s relationships
to the powers of her day, Adams offers a welcome contribution to
late medieval literary scholarship.”—Daisy Delogu Modern
Philology
“In an earlier book, Tracy Adams did great service to the scholarly
community by helping dispel the outdated, slanderous fictions
surrounding the lives of Isabeau of Bavaria and Louis of Orleans.
In this work she continues to apply recent historical research to
the task of developing new readings of Christine de Pizan. The
result is an up-to-date and very readable history of the conflict
between the Burgundians and Armagnacs that offers insightful
readings of all of Christine's major works and enhances our
understanding of her allegiances and the ways in which her texts
responded to the conflict.”—Karen Green,Monash University
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