Christine de Pizan and French Humanism: Elements for a Historical Contextualization

Abstract

This paper seeks to provide sufficient elements to locate the philosopher and poet Christine de Pizan in the intellectual context of early 15th-century French humanism. This objective responds to a difficulty that accompanies studies of the philosophical activity of the medieval period in a secular environment. As a woman, Pizan is necessarily secular and her literary production took place outside the limits normally outlined as an object of study by historians of medieval philosophy, that is, a typical scholastic production.