This week’s Virtual Medieval Colloquium features Peter King (University of Toronto).
When: Thursday, April 23, at 12 noon in Toronto / 18h à Paris.
Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qvCoHtiVQxA1SrZtLl4tTMOJ873zkKQ5/view?usp=sharing
Title: “Christine de Pizan: The City of Ladies and The City of God”
Abstract: Christine de Pizan’s The City of Ladies has been considered a groundbreaking work of medieval history and a (proto-)feminist tract. Here I want to talk about it as a work of political philosophy, whose debt to Augustine, signaled in its title, seems largely to have been overlooked — a debt that sheds light on both its historical and its feminist credentials.
The handout is available here.
In medias PHIL 