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October 19, 2005
Susan Groag Bell The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies: Christine de Pizan’s Renaissance Legacy Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 271 pp.; 8 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Cloth (0520234103)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2005.55

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Author Christine de Pizan (c. 1364–c. 1430) is no longer the obscure figure she was three decades ago when Susan Groag Bell began her research for The Lost Tapestries of the ‘City of Ladies’: Christine de Pizan’s Renaissance Legacy. Indeed, although Christine’s texts were widely commissioned for court libraries in fifteenth-century Europe, by the middle of the sixteenth century they had already fallen out of favor. Not until feminist scholars of the early 1980s began...