Helen Carr picks Christine de Pizan at the Gloucester history festival
Historian Helen Carr picks one of the first professional female writers in the west - Christine de Pizan. Recorded at the Gloucester history festival.
Christine de Pizan was born in Italy but most of her life was spent in Paris, where her father was astrologer to the King of France. After her husband died she was left alone to bring up her three children. Christine's most famous work is The Book of the City of Ladies, and historian Helen Carr says she has been inspired by her ever since seeing one of her manuscripts in the British Library. Joining her on stage at the Gloucester History Festival is Christine's biographer Charlotte Cooper-Davis for a lively recording about an important character who was definitely ahead of her time.
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