The series ends with a look at Christine de Pizan and her response to misogynistic medieval literature, focusing especially on her role in the debate over Jean de Meun’s poem Romance of the Rose.

Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD

Christine de Pizan

In this series of ten video lectures Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and King’s College London, discusses the contributions of women intellectuals, mystics, and philosophers in ancient Greece, ancient China, the Islamic world, and medieval Europe. From Diotima to Christine de Pizan, we learn about the ideas of female thinkers and also about the challenges they faced in putting forward these ideas.

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Women Thinkers in Antiquity and the Middle Ages - SD