Christine de Pizan's Dit de la pastoure: Pastoral Poetry, and the Poetics of Loss

Christopher Callahan

Christine de Pizan's Dit de la pastoure: Pastoral Poetry, and the Poetics of Loss

Illinois Wesleyan University

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Abstract

Christine de Pizan is the foremost woman of letters in the medieval French tradition, and the first to live by her penl. Her output contains some thirty titles equally distributed between verse and prose2. Two cycles of love lyrics, the Cent balades (composed between 1399 and 1402), and the Cent balades d'amant et de dame (1410), frame the bulk of her activity, during which she produced, focusing mainly on the theme of love, a series of dits (verse narratives) and debate poems, and made a significant epistolary contribution to the famous querelle over the misogynist

views of Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose , before turning to didactic and allegorical writing.

Original language	American English
Journal	Le Moyen Français
Volume	59
State	Published - 2006

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities
French and Francophone Language and Literature

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