Le Libraire Bessette Les Femmes

addressed more immediate subjects. The reaction against courtly values is clear in the polemic surrounding Le Roman de la Rose THE MIDDLE AGES 27 launched by Christine de Pizan in her Epistre au Dieu d’amours (1399) and the querelle des femmes which followed. Christine was a ‘modern’ woman, a widow who made her living as a ‘vray homme’ and an early exponent of the new literature of information. Between 1400 and 1410, she wrote commissioned works on a variety of subjects – government and