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Article: The Love Debate Poems of Christine de Pizan: Le Livre du debat de deux amans, Le Livre des trois jugemens, Le Livre du dit de Poissy.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 1999
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Barbara K. Altmann, The Love Debate Poems of Christine de Pizan: Le Livre du debat de deux amans, Le Livre des trois jugemens, Le Livre du dit de Poissy (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998). 294 pp.; 4 plates. ISBN 0-8130-1578-2. $49.95.
Barbara K. Altmann has put all late medieval scholars in her debt by making available an excellent critical edition of Christine de Pizan's three debate poems, whose composition c.1400 reflects renewed interest in the kind of courtly love casuistry made popular by Machaut some fifty years earlier, and whose dedications reveal the importance of the economics of patronage for an ambitious female writer obliged to earn ...