Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500

Chapter 1 Does Virtue Recognise Gender? Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies in the Light of Scholastic Debate

Chapter 2 The Speculum dominarum (Miroir des dames) and Transformations of the Literature of Instruction for Women in the Early Fourteenth Century

Chapter 3 A Mirror of Queenship: The Speculum dominarum and the Demands of Justice

Chapter 4 A Lady’s Guide to Salvation: The Miroir des dames Compilation

Chapter 5 Charles V’s Visual Definition of the Queen’s Virtues

Chapter 6 Jean Gerson’s Writings to His Sisters and Christine de Pizan’s Livre des trois vertus: An Intellectual Dialogue Culminating in Friendship

Chapter 8 Appearing Virtuous: Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre des trois vertus and Anne de France’s Les Enseignements d’Anne de France

Chapter 9 Weaving Virtue: Laura Cereta as a New Penelope

Chapter 10 Margherita Cantelmo and the Worth of Women in Renaissance Italy

Chapter 11 Like Mother Like Daughter: Moral and Literary Virtues in French Renaissance Women’s Writings

Chapter 12 Joanna of Castile’s Entry into Brussels: Viragos, Wise and Virtuous Women