Jean de Meun
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Jean de Meun was a French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose.
Jean de Meung
Jean de Meun presents his French translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy to Margaret of Anjou in a fanciful miniature from the 15th-century manuscript Jena, Bibliothek der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Ms. fol. 85
Christine de Pizan
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Christine de Pizan or Pisan, was an Italian-born French court writer for King Charles VI of France and several French royal dukes, in both prose and poetry.
Jean de Meun
…by Guillaume de Deguileville in his Pèlerinage de la vie humaine (c. 1330), long a favorite work both in England and France, by Jean Gerson, and by Christine de Pisan in her Épître au dieu d'amour. It also found energetic defenders. Part of Jean's poem was translated into Middle English verse by Chaucer as The Romaunt…
Christine de Pizan writing a book
One page of Christine's book Le livre des trois vertus. In the illumination Christine is kept from rest by the Three Virtues.
Christine de Pizan presents her book to Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France.
Illumination from The Book of the City of Ladies by the Master of the Cité des dames. Christine is shown before the personifications of Rectitude, Reason, and Justice in her study, and working alongside Justice to build the 'Cité des dames'.