« La Cité des dames, un matrimoine sans frontières »

in Leduc, Guyonne (Ed.) Les Roles transfrontaliers joués par les femmes dans la construction de l'Europe (2012)

Christine de Pizan's catalogue of famous women is not the slavish imitation of Boccaccio's. The territories covered by her European heroines are quite extensive and varied (Asian and African women are not ... [more ▼]

Christine de Pizan's catalogue of famous women is not the slavish imitation of Boccaccio's. The territories covered by her European heroines are quite extensive and varied (Asian and African women are not excluded here). [less ▲]

Chaucer’s Viragos: A Postcolonial Engagement?

in Beattie, Cordelia (Ed.) Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (2011)

The Chaucerian attitude to the set of viragos of his Man of Law's Tale, Monk's Tale, and Knight's Tale is enigmatic. By discrediting the reliability of his narrators, he blurs the categories of difference ... [more ▼]

The Chaucerian attitude to the set of viragos of his Man of Law's Tale, Monk's Tale, and Knight's Tale is enigmatic. By discrediting the reliability of his narrators, he blurs the categories of difference that they strongly advocate, thus creating a space in which the medieval racial and racist clichés concerning Oriental viragos may be reconsidered. Attention has been drawn to Chaucer’s formation of ‘English’ identity in the poet’s late writings. The writer’s exclusive use of London English, a colonized language, was a political decision, but he resists easy binaries of identification and his English nationalism is a ‘present-looking and eclectic multiculturalism.’ The Knight’s as well as the Man of Law’s tales are retellings of imperial aggression but also accounts of failed imperialist ambitions. In a way, the Monk addresses a similar issue, but here the initial imperial belligerence comes from the Orient and there is a return to Western imperial order. Needless to say, narratives dealing with military campaigns and crusades, and deviant women were of high relevance to a late fourteenth-century audience. The period marked a turning point from universal forms of truth to a greater interest in individual identities; and late medieval English society was not monolithic, and neither was the social sample going to Canterbury. Chaucer steers a delicate course between opposite trends and raises a number of crucial issues [less ▲]

Chaucer. Le Parlement des oiseaux

in Crépin, André (Ed.) Geoffrey Chaucer. Les Contes de Canterbury et autres oeuvres (2010)

French translation with notes of the Middle English text. Traduction française et notes du texte moyen-anglais

Prières et variations sur les motifs du bilan et du pèlerinage

in Louviot, Elise; Stévanovitch, Colette; Mahoux, Philippe (Eds.) et al Everyman (2009)

"Moy, Christine", Mémoires glorieuses et mémoire du moi: Christine de Pizan et la mémoire posthume

in Delgleize, Nathalie; Bertrand, Jean-Pierre; Renouprez, Martine (Eds.) Mémoires (2009)

Christine de Pizan, une femme de science, une femme de lettres

Book published by Honoré Champion (2008)

Zénobie: Péché d'orgueil et port de la vitremyte

in Buschinger, Danielle; Sancery, Arlette (Eds.) Mélanges de langue, littérature et civilisation offerts à André Crépin à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire (2008)

Le Conte du Franklin. Chaucer décline la plainte au masculin et au féminin

in Alazard, Florence (Ed.) La Plainte au Moyen Âge (2008)

Femmes et Livres

Book published by L'Harmattan (2007)

Christine de Pizan, de la transsexualité au travestissement

in Leduc, Guyonne (Ed.) Travestissement féminin et libertés (2006)