"This is an exceptional, innovative, and interesting study. The scholarship is admirable, even breathtaking at points. The unusual method--the reader accompanying the writer as she treks down the crooked trail leading to these tapestries--is absolutely compelling."--Sarah Hanley, author of "Les Femmes dans l'histoire: La loi salique" "Susan Groag Bell gives us a unique account of the life and legacy of Christine de Pizan. Written with a scholar's consummate rigor and a detective's sense of urgency, Bell's quest for the ...
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"This is an exceptional, innovative, and interesting study. The scholarship is admirable, even breathtaking at points. The unusual method--the reader accompanying the writer as she treks down the crooked trail leading to these tapestries--is absolutely compelling."--Sarah Hanley, author of "Les Femmes dans l'histoire: La loi salique" "Susan Groag Bell gives us a unique account of the life and legacy of Christine de Pizan. Written with a scholar's consummate rigor and a detective's sense of urgency, Bell's quest for the lost tapestries inspired by Christine's "City of Ladies" makes for compelling reading."--Marilyn Yalom, author of "Birth of the Chess Queen, A History of the Wife, and A History of the Breast" "Bound to become a classic, this meticulously and lovingly researched book is a model of historical scholarship as well as a detective thriller. Susan Bell offers enormous insight not only to readers long familiar with Christine de Pizan's "City of Ladies" but also to those just discovering it. Investigating hitherto neglected archival and art historical evidence, Bell gives new life to the social history of the lost tapestries and their noble and royal owners and reconstructs the integral relation between Renaissance political culture, identity, and Christine's classic defense of women."--Earl Jeffrey Richards, translator of the first English edition of Christine de Pizan's "The Book of the City of Ladies" and co-editor of "Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan"
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