The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture. THE CITY OF LADIES provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints. The City of Ladies is de Pizans attempt at a dialogue with respected and learned male philosophers and writers who claim that women have no capacity for. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. In The Great Conversation, we ask perhaps the most urgent question of all: How should we live This week we discussed Christine de Pizan's. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters.
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