The Book of the City of Ladies

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Mentioned for the 1405 book that named Sappho as the subject.

Mentioned as Christine's most famous work where she returns to the subject of defending women.

Mentioned by

Holly Fry

and

Tracy B. Wilson

as a late medieval writer who wrote verse, military manuals, treatises on war and peace, and the biography of King Charles V of France.

Mentioned by

Erika Bachiochi

as an early example of a writer advocating for women's equal status.

Mentioned by

Margaret L. King

as a key figure in the pro-woman literary tradition.

Mentioned by David Peña-Guzmán as a philosopher who viewed envy as an unpleasant sin.

Mentioned by

Tracy B. Wilson

as having similarities to Anna Maria von Sherman's work, chronicling learned women through history and mythology.

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