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Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos
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October 1, 2008
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DOUGLAS KELLY, Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos. Gallica Vol. 4. Cambridge, U.K.: D.S. Brewer, 2007. Pp. xiv, 226. isbn: 978-1-84384-111-1. $85.
Douglas Kelly has always had interesting things to say on Christine, ever since his 1972 article in Sub-Stance, 'Reflections on Christine de Pisan as a Feminist Writer.' In this volume, Kelly provides one of the few book-length studies thus far to treat Christine as an important thinker, in virtually all her works-not just the Cité des Dames-including her lyric poetry.
Kelly clearly lays out his elegant (in the scientific-theoretical sense) plan of inquiry in his introduction, then successfully ...
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