The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, continuing a conversation about gender and greatness that began more than six hundred years ago. In 1450 Christine de Pisan took up the pen to defend her maligned sex. Her book, The City of Ladies, was built around preserving women' The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, continuing a conversation about gender and greatness that began more than six hundred years ago. In 1450 Christine de Pisan took up the pen to defend her maligned sex. Her book, The City of Ladies, was built around preserving women's reputations from the slights and misunderstandings of history. In it the author is visited by three spirits – Justice, Rectitude and Reason – who guide her in sifting through countless lives, in search of worthy citizens. Nearly 600 years later, the historian and novelist Lisa Hilton picks up the book and promptly falls asleep, only to be visited by three great women from history: Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great. And they aren't happy. Having found themselves barred from the original 'City of Ladies', they want to know why. And isn't it time, they ask, for a new author to take up the pen? What follows is a reassessment of the past, in which deeds and reputations, rumours and reality are held up to the light, and history is wrested back from the distortions of misogyny.
Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting history with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great
The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, continuing a conversation about gender and greatness that began more than six hundred years ago. In 1450 Christine de Pisan took up the pen to defend her maligned sex. Her book, The City of Ladies, was built around preserving women' The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, continuing a conversation about gender and greatness that began more than six hundred years ago. In 1450 Christine de Pisan took up the pen to defend her maligned sex. Her book, The City of Ladies, was built around preserving women's reputations from the slights and misunderstandings of history. In it the author is visited by three spirits – Justice, Rectitude and Reason – who guide her in sifting through countless lives, in search of worthy citizens. Nearly 600 years later, the historian and novelist Lisa Hilton picks up the book and promptly falls asleep, only to be visited by three great women from history: Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great. And they aren't happy. Having found themselves barred from the original 'City of Ladies', they want to know why. And isn't it time, they ask, for a new author to take up the pen? What follows is a reassessment of the past, in which deeds and reputations, rumours and reality are held up to the light, and history is wrested back from the distortions of misogyny.
Compare
51 review for Sex and the City of Ladies: Rewriting history with Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia and Catherine the Great
Related products
Barefoot Blue Jean Night/Guilty Pleasures
Designer Desserts Celebrity Sweet Treats: Guilty Pleasure Recipes of the Rich and Famous
Guilty Pleasures (Guilty Pleasures, #1)
DIET CHEATS! I'll Start my Diet Tomorrow Italian Recipe Edition: How to Enjoy Unrestrained Gratification, Shameless Flavorful Indulgences, and Guilt Free ... Recipe Books of Guilty Pleasures Book 1)
Guilty Pleasures: A BWWM Romance Limited Edition Collection
Wicked Enticements A Compilation of Guilty Pleasures
Barbra Streisand -- Guilty Pleasures: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Илияна Димитрова –
Доста интересно.
Regina Andreassen –
Juvenile
Iris –
What a wallop! In a few dozen pages, Hilton illuminates the Renaissance, decimates contemporary literary scholarship’s gender essentialism, and tosses in some cocktail chatter-worthy facts about the loves of four oversexualized, ultimately underestimated historical figures: Christine de Pisan, Cleopatra, Lucrezia Borgia, and Catherine the Great. This delightful and powerful tome is just right for the distracted reading breaks in coronatime.
Cameron McLeod –
Fun, creative, marvellous.
Clarissa –
An easy read (short too, which is great for getting back into reading during the pandemic) Lisa delves into the lives of some fascinating historical figures and challenges the thinking around them. For example: Catherine the great conducted herself (sexually speaking) in a way that for a man would have been more than acceptable and not at all the focus. Whereas, because she was a female, people refer to her as that Russian Queen who slept with a lot of people rather than the great ruler she was c An easy read (short too, which is great for getting back into reading during the pandemic) Lisa delves into the lives of some fascinating historical figures and challenges the thinking around them. For example: Catherine the great conducted herself (sexually speaking) in a way that for a man would have been more than acceptable and not at all the focus. Whereas, because she was a female, people refer to her as that Russian Queen who slept with a lot of people rather than the great ruler she was considered to be.
Rachel Dolphin –
Kate: The Quick and the Read –
Elna –
Alice –
L Timmel –
Marianne Sæland –
Sophie –
Sarah –
Nikki –
Stephanie –
Bridget –
Dóra –
Dana Jobling –
Daniella Gonzalez –
Milly –
Sarah AF –
Jenni –
Uzay –
Ema –
Sophie –
Holiday –
Ash Beckwith –
James Harrison –
Ty –
Peter Biddlecombe –
Joy –
Victoria Price –
ConstantReader –
AnnaG –
Rita –
Diane –
Jennifer Drake –
Linda –
Lady Chelsea –
Jo –
Leslie W. –
Denise –
Atanasije Svilar –
Jennifer Willis –
Katie –
Rhian Pritchard –
THOMAS RYASKO –
Olivia Lauren –
Leila –
Linda –
Kaja –