Book of Peace — Christine de Pizan

Completed around 1413 or 1414

Issue 01 — Fall 2019 — Session 01 — Microliteratures: In the Margins of the Law
By Jesús R. Velasco | Published on August 8, 2019

Christine de Pizan completed her ‘Livre de paix’ or ‘Book of Peace’ around 1413 or 1414, when she was 50 years old. She dedicated it to Louis, Duc of Guyenne and Dauphin of France (1397-1415), as a political intervention in the civil war between the Armagnac and the Burgundians (1407-1435).

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, français, 1182, f.7r.

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For our seminar, we will be reading the excerpts contained in The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan: New Translations, Criticism, translated by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Kevin Brownlee; edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, New York and London: Norton (A Norton Critical Edition), 1997: p. 229–248.

There is a complete English translation of this book that you can read instead of the previous item, as it is online and easily available:

Christine de Pizan. The Book of Peace. Karen Green, Constant J. Mews, and Janice Pinder, ed., trad., and intro. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press (Penn State Romance Studies), 2008.

French edition:

Christine de Pisan (sic). The Livre de la Paix. Charity Cannon Willard, ed. ‘S‑Gravenhage: Mouton, 1958.

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Kennedy, Angus J. “The education of ‘The good prince’: repetition and variation in the Livre du corps de policie and the Livre de paix”. “Contez me tout”. Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Herman Braet. Catherine Bel, Pascale Dumont and Frank Willaert, eds. Leuven: Peeters, 2006: 507–525.
Kennedy, Angus J. “Le thème de “l’atrempance” dans Le livre du corps de policie et Le livre de paix.” Desireuse de plus avant enquerre… Actes du VIe Colloque international sur Christine de Pizan (Paris, 20–24 juillet 2006). Volume en hommage à James Laidlaw. Liliane Dulac, Anne Paupert, Christine Reno, and Bernard Ribémont, eds. Paris: Champion (Études christiniennes, 11), 2008: 15–31.
Mews, Constant J. “Latin learning in Christine de Pizan’s Livre de paix.” Healing the Body Politic: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan. Karen Green, and Constant J. Mews, eds. Turnhout: Brepols (Disputatio, 7), 2005: 61–80.
Richards, Earl Jeffrey. “Bartolo da Sassaferrato as a possible source for Christine de Pizan’s.” Healing the Body Politic: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan. Karen Green, and Constant J. Mews. Turnhout: Brepols (Disputatio, 7), 2005: 81–97.
Temple, Maud Elizabeth. “Paraphrasing in the Livre de Paix of Christine de Pisan of Paradiso, III‑V.” PMLA, 37:2 (1922): 182–186.
Van Hemelryck, Tania. “Christine de Pizan et la paix: la rhétorique et les mots pour le dire.” Au champ des escriptures. IIIe Colloque international sur Christine de Pizan, Lausanne, 18–22 juillet 1998. Eric Hicks, Diego Gonzalez, and Philippe Simon, eds. Paris: Champion (Études christiniennes, 6), 2000: 663–689.
Van Hemelryck, Tania. “La translatio au service de la femme de lettres au Moyen Âge: Christine de Pizan et ses désirs de paix.” D’une écriture à l’autre. Les femmes et la traduction sous l’Ancien Régime. Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, ed. Ottawa: Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa (Regards sur la traduction), 2004: 53–69.
Willard, Charity C. “An unknown manuscript of Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la paix.” Studi francesi 64 (1978): 90–97.

Book of Peace — Christine de Pizan

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