Christine de Pizan: the first feminist?
The Renaissance poet wrote a quietly devastating critique of violent and oppressive men, conjuring a brilliant riposte to Eve's 'first disobedience'
[This is Who made our minds?, my Thursday essay probing the greatest, cruellest and most beautiful minds, inspired by my book, The Soul: A History of the Human Mind (Penguin 2024). Next week: Thomas Hobbes. And then: Akhenaten, Buddha and Cicero.]
IN 1404 AN ITALIAN-BORN French poet and court writer took up her quill to write a book in defence of women a…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Who made our minds? to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.