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Article: Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos.(Gallica)(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2008
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Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos By DOUGLAS KELLY. (Gallica, 4) Cambridge: Brewer. 2007. 226 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-84384-111-1.
Douglas Kelly's book is one of the few that have grown out of the intense interest in Christine de Pizan in recent decades. In a tour de force, Kelly examines nearly all of Christine's oeuvre, poetry and prose, through the lens of the notion of opinion. He describes her as the late medieval writer who most prominently expresses her subjective opinions, and situates her as an important precursor to Rabelais and Montaigne.
Kelly's initial chapter analyses the notion ...