Test XML media persistence

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-model href="https://cwrc.ca/schemas/orlando_entry.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="null"?><ENTRY xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" ID="chripi" SEX="FEMALE" PERSON="WRITER">
 <ORLANDOHEADER>
 <FILEDESC>
 <TITLESTMT>
 <DOCTITLE>Christine de Pisan</DOCTITLE>
 </TITLESTMT>
 <PUBLICATIONSTMT>
 <AUTHORITY>Orlando Project</AUTHORITY>
 </PUBLICATIONSTMT>
 <SOURCEDESC>Created from original research by members of the Orlando
 Project</SOURCEDESC>
 </FILEDESC>
 <XENODATA><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:as="http://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#" xmlns:cwrc="http://sparql.cwrc.ca/ontologies/cwrc#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:geo="http://www.geonames.org/ontology#" xmlns:oa="http://www.w3.org/ns/oa#" xmlns:schema="http://schema.org/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" xmlns:fabio="https://purl.org/spar/fabio#" xmlns:bf="http://www.openlinksw.com/schemas/bif#" xmlns:cito="https://sparontologies.github.io/cito/current/cito.html#" xmlns:org="http://www.w3.org/ns/org#"/></XENODATA><REVISIONDESC TYPE="LEGACY">
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="RWT" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-01-06" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">6 January 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>Initial document given to tagger.</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="RWT" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-01-06" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">6 January 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>Initial document given to tagger.</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="RWT" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-01-13" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">13 January 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>jah: tagging in process.</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="RWT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-01-14" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">14 January 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>jah: document tagged.</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="RWT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-01-14" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">14 January 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>jah: document tagged.</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="JKW" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="P">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-01-16" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">16 January 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>jah: document tagged. jkw: preliminary checking for tagging and content
 pending VA decisions</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="RWT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-01-16" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">16 January 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>jah: document tagged.</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="JKW" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="P">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-01-16" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">16 January 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>jah: document tagged.jkw: prelimary check for tagging and content pending
 VA decisions</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="REV" WORKVALUE="P">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-01-19" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">19 January 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>jkw: preliminary checking for tagging and content pending VA decisions.
 jah: revised.</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="REV" WORKVALUE="P">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-01-19" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">19 January 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>jkw: prelimary check for tagging and content pending VA decisions. jah:
 revised.</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RWT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-10-06" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">6 October 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>Updated for Sept 1998 Audit</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1998-10-06" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">6 October 1998</DATE>
 <ITEM>Updated for Sept 1998 Audit</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="JSC" WORKSTATUS="REV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1999-03-03" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">3 March 1999</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed standard name</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="JSC" WORKSTATUS="REV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1999-03-03" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">3 March 1999</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed standard name</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="KNT" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1999-07-22" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">22 July 1999</DATE>
 <ITEM>knt: fixed date</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1999-08-01" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1 August 1999</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1999-09-12" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">12 September 1999</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1999-11-12" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">12 November 1999</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="SYS" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1999-12-21" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">21 December 1999</DATE>
 <ITEM>BATCH CHANGE: primarily orgName and bibCit cleanup</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="SYS" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="1999-12-21" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">21 December 1999</DATE>
 <ITEM>BATCH CHANGE: primarily orgName and bibCit cleanup</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-05-02" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">2 May 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-05-02" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">2 May 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM>you'll have had the message about one of these docs twice, because I
 messed up on checkin. All sorted now. Isobel</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="KDC" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-05-12" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">12 May 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM>checked for tagging</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="KDC" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-05-12" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">12 May 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM>checked for tagging</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-05-13" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">13 May 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-05-13" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">13 May 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="KDC" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-05-15" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">15 May 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="ECG" WORKSTATUS="CAS" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-06-14" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">14 June 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="ECG" WORKSTATUS="CAS" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-06-14" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">14 June 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="ECG" WORKSTATUS="CAS" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-06-26" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">26 June 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="ECG" WORKSTATUS="CAS" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-06-26" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">26 June 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="RSC" WORKSTATUS="PUB" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-10-31" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">31 October 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="RSC" WORKSTATUS="PUB" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-10-31" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">31 October 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="SLB" WORKSTATUS="PUB" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-11-03" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">3 November 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM>removed title tags from sources</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="SLB" WORKSTATUS="PUB" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-11-03" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">3 November 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM>removed title tags from sources</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="SLB" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-11-28" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">28 November 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed names</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="SLB" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2000-12-07" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">7 December 2000</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed place</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="DRG" WORKSTATUS="REV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-02-01" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1 February 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM>converted textual apostrophes and quotation marks to entity
 references</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="DRG" WORKSTATUS="REV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-02-01" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1 February 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM>converted textual apostrophes and quotation marks to entity
 references</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="CFB" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-02-16" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">16 February 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM>biblio work done</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="CFB" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-02-16" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">16 February 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM>biblio work done</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="RSC" WORKSTATUS="PUB" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-05-14" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">14 May 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="RSC" WORKSTATUS="PUB" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-05-14" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">14 May 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="PUB" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-06-08" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">8 June 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM>added bibcit; added publication to biblio database</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="RSC" WORKSTATUS="PUB" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-08-22" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">22 August 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="SLB" WORKSTATUS="PUB" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-10-29" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">29 October 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed entity ref</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="SLB" WORKSTATUS="PUB" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-10-29" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">29 October 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed entity ref</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="RSC" WORKSTATUS="REV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2001-11-28" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">28 November 2001</DATE>
 <ITEM>removed topic tag; place and name will work</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="SLB" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2002-03-22" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">22 March 2002</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed entity reference in attribute</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="CFB" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2002-05-09" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">9 May 2002</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed title</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="TRN" WORKSTATUS="CAS" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2003-02-27" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">27 February 2003</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="SYS" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2003-04-14" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">14 April 2003</DATE>
 <ITEM>BATCH CHANGE: primarily PLACE cleanup</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="SYS" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2003-04-14" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">14 April 2003</DATE>
 <ITEM>BATCH CHANGE: primarily PLACE cleanup</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="SYS" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2003-06-16" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">16 June 2003</DATE>
 <ITEM>BATCH CHANGE: primarily TGENRENAME cleanup, BIBCIT following P moved
 before P, BIBCITS TAG added</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="SYS" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2003-06-16" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">16 June 2003</DATE>
 <ITEM>BATCH CHANGE: primarily TGENRENAME cleanup, BIBCIT following P moved
 before P, BIBCITS TAG added</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2004-11-12" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">12 November 2004</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed a few wrong chroncolumns</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2004-11-12" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">12 November 2004</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed a few wrong chroncolumns</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="SYS" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2005-04-08" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">08 April 2005</DATE>
 <ITEM>BATCH CHANGE: March 2005 Specifications. Mainly tag/attribute name
 changes</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="SYS" WORKSTATUS="CFT" WORKVALUE="I">
 <DATE VALUE="2005-04-08" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">08 April 2005</DATE>
 <ITEM>BATCH CHANGE: March 2005 Specifications. Mainly tag/attribute name
 changes</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="JAH" WORKSTATUS="CFB" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2005-06-28" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">28 June 2005</DATE>
 <ITEM>fixed titles</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2006-02-10" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">10 February 2006</DATE>
 <ITEM>final readthrough</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="RBV" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2006-02-10" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">10 February 2006</DATE>
 <ITEM>final readthrough</ITEM>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" RESP="IMG" WORKSTATUS="ENH" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2007-01-03" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">3 January 2007</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="BIOGRAPHY" WORKSTATUS="REV" RESP="IMG" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2016-04-03" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">3 April 2016</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" WORKSTATUS="ENH" RESP="IMG" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2016-04-03" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">3 April 2016</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" WORKSTATUS="ENH" RESP="IMG" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2019-03-08" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">8 March 2019</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 <RESPONSIBILITY TARGET="WRITING" WORKSTATUS="REV" RESP="IMG" WORKVALUE="C">
 <DATE VALUE="2019-04-16" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">16 April 2019</DATE>
 <ITEM/>
 </RESPONSIBILITY>
 </REVISIONDESC>
 </ORLANDOHEADER>
 <DIV0>
 <STANDARD WROTEORPUBLISHEDAS="WROTEPUBLISHEDASYES">Christine de Pisan - boo</STANDARD><AUTHORSUMMARY>
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME> wrote for a
 living (years before any woman did this in Britain). <GENERICRANGE>She is
 remarkable both as a sophisticated, polished, and versatile writer of
 <TGENRE GENRENAME="POETRY">poetry</TGENRE> in French, and as a
 <TGENRE GENRENAME="FEMINIST">proto-feminist</TGENRE>.</GENERICRANGE>
 <GENERICRANGE>Her works (more than a dozen of them)</GENERICRANGE> quickly
 reached print (still a rarity when she was writing), both in their original
 French and in English translations: their titles take varying forms.
 </AUTHORSUMMARY>
 <BIOGRAPHY>
 <HEADING>Biography</HEADING>
 <DIV1>
 <PERSONNAME>
 <DIV2>
 <DATASTRUCT>
 <DATAITEM>
 <BIRTHNAME WROTEORPUBLISHEDAS="WROTEPUBLISHEDASYES">
 <GIVEN>Christine</GIVEN>
 <SURNAME>de Pisan</SURNAME>
 <SCHOLARNOTE>
 Her name <SOCALLED>de Pisan</SOCALLED> comes from the
 original locale of her father's family, the small
 northern Italian town of
 <PLACE>
 <SETTLEMENT>Pizzano</SETTLEMENT>
 <GEOG REG="Italy"/>
 </PLACE> near
 <PLACE>
 <SETTLEMENT>Bologna</SETTLEMENT>
 <GEOG REG="Italy"/>
 </PLACE>. Her father's name,
 Tommaso di Benvenuto da Pizzano, was gallicised by the
 French to Thomas de Pisan.<BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="McLeod xi-xii" DBREF="108375">xi-xii</BIBCIT>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Willard 17" DBREF="108682">17</BIBCIT>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Yenal 5" DBREF="108716">5</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 
 </SCHOLARNOTE>
 </BIRTHNAME>
 </DATAITEM>
 <DATAITEM>
 <INDEXED INDEXSOURCE="LC" WROTEORPUBLISHEDAS="WROTEPUBLISHEDASYES">de Pizan</INDEXED>
 </DATAITEM>
 </DATASTRUCT>
 </DIV2>
 </PERSONNAME>
 </DIV1>
 <DIV1>
 <HEADING>Birth and Background</HEADING>
 <BIRTH>
 <DIV2>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RELEVANCE="SELECTIVE" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RESP="JAH">
 <DATE VALUE="1364" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1364</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de
 Pisan</NAME> was born in
 <PLACE>
 <SETTLEMENT>Venice</SETTLEMENT>
 <GEOG REG="Italy"/>
 </PLACE>.<BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Willard 16" DBREF="108682">16</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONPROSE>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 </DIV2>
 </BIRTH>
 </DIV1>
 <DIV1>
 <HEADING>From Italy to France</HEADING>
 <LOCATION RELATIONTO="MIGRATED">
 <DIV2>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RELEVANCE="COMPREHENSIVE" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RESP="JAH">
 <DATE VALUE="1368" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1368</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>The child <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de
 Pisan</NAME> and her mother joined her astrologer father in
 <PLACE>
 <SETTLEMENT>Paris</SETTLEMENT>
 <GEOG REG="France"/>
 </PLACE>, at the court of <NAME STANDARD="Charles V,, King of France">Charles
 V</NAME>.</CHRONPROSE>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="McLeod xii" DBREF="108375">xii</BIBCIT>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Yenal 5" DBREF="108716">5</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 </DIV2>
 </LOCATION>
 </DIV1>
 <DIV1>
 <FAMILY>
 <MEMBER RELATION="HUSBAND">
 <MARRIAGE>
 <DIV2>
 <HEADING>Marriage and Children</HEADING>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RELEVANCE="COMPREHENSIVE" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RESP="JAH">
 <DATE VALUE="1380" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1380</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de
 Pisan</NAME> married <JOB>scholar</JOB> Etienne de
 Castel, <CHILDREN NUMBER="3">with whom she had three
 children: Marie, Jean, and another son who died in
 childhood.</CHILDREN>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="McLeod xii" DBREF="108375">xii</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONPROSE>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 </DIV2>
 </MARRIAGE>
 </MEMBER>
 </FAMILY>
 </DIV1>
 <DIV1>
 <WEALTH>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RELEVANCE="COMPREHENSIVE" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RESP="JAH">
 <DATE VALUE="1390" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1390</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de
 Pisan</NAME>'s husband Etienne died, leaving her solely responsible
 for supporting her three children, her mother, and an impoverished
 niece.</CHRONPROSE>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="McLeod xii" DBREF="108375">xii</BIBCIT>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Yenal 6-7" DBREF="108716">6-7</BIBCIT>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Willard 39" DBREF="108682">39</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 </WEALTH>
 </DIV1>
 <DIV1>
 <HEADING>When Did She Die?</HEADING>
 <DEATH>
 <DIV2>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RELEVANCE="SELECTIVE" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RESP="JAH">
 <DATE VALUE="1429-08" CERTAINTY="AFTER" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE">August 1429</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de
 Pisan</NAME> was alive in this month (she wrote her last poem on
 <DATE VALUE="1429-07-31" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">31 July</DATE>); but she was not heard
 from again and the exact date of her death is unknown.</CHRONPROSE>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Yenal 18" DBREF="108716">18</BIBCIT>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="McLeod xxi" DBREF="108375">xxi</BIBCIT>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Willard 207" DBREF="108682">207</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 </DIV2>
 </DEATH>
 </DIV1>
 </BIOGRAPHY>
 <WRITING>
 <HEADING>Writing</HEADING>
 <DIV1>
 <HEADING>Beginnings</HEADING>
 <DIV2>
 <PRODUCTION>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RESP="JAH" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RELEVANCE="SELECTIVE">
 <DATE VALUE="1394" CERTAINTY="BY" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE">By 1394</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>
 <PFIRSTLITERARYACTIVITY>After a course of self-education,
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de
 Pisan</NAME> began writing <TGENRE GENRENAME="POETRY">verse</TGENRE>.</PFIRSTLITERARYACTIVITY>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Willard 43-4" DBREF="108682">43-4</BIBCIT>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="McLeod xiii" DBREF="108375">xiii</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONPROSE>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME> herself
 dated from this year the beginning of her writing career. <PMOTIVES MOTIVETYPE="SELF-IDENTIFIED">She was already a widow, with heavy
 financial responsibilities.</PMOTIVES>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </PRODUCTION>
 <RECEPTION>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <PEARNINGS>For many years after this she was able to support her
 family on her literary earnings, a most remarkable achievement
 for her time.</PEARNINGS>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </RECEPTION>
 </DIV2>
 <DIV2>
 <TEXTSCOPE DBREF="8339" PLACEHOLDER="CP, L'épistre au dieu d'amours, 1399, 1886-1896"/>
 <PRODUCTION>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RESP="JAH" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RELEVANCE="SELECTIVE">
 <DATE VALUE="1399-05" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">May 1399</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>
 <TINTERTEXTUALITY INTERTEXTTYPE="ANSWER" GENDEROFAUTHOR="MALE">
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME> finished <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">L'épistre au dieu
 d'amours</TITLE>, a <TGENRE GENRENAME="POETRY">poem</TGENRE> in reply to <NAME STANDARD="Meun, Jean de">Jean de Meun</NAME>'s <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">Roman de la Rose</TITLE>.</TINTERTEXTUALITY>
 </CHRONPROSE>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Pisan, Oeuvres poétiques II: 1" DBREF="8339">II: 1</BIBCIT>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Yenal 31" DBREF="108716">31</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <PEDITIONS>In 2010 <NAME STANDARD="Hult, David F.">David F.
 Hult</NAME> translated and edited this, along with other
 related texts, many of them by Christine, under the title <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">Debate of the Romance of the
 Rose</TITLE>.</PEDITIONS>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </PRODUCTION>
 <TEXTUALFEATURES>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <NAME STANDARD="Meun, Jean de">Jean de Meun</NAME>'s allegory of
 courtly love is in modern terms antifeminist or misogynist. <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME> responds
 with an <SOCALLED>anti-anti-feminist </SOCALLED> view, and with the
 argument that <TTHEMETOPIC>women have serious historical
 importance</TTHEMETOPIC>. She shows, this early in her career, a
 sophisticated grasp of the literary tradition she works in, a
 self-consciousness about her status as a woman writing, and an
 understanding of the need to revision <TTHEMETOPIC>gendered
 conventions</TTHEMETOPIC>.<BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Reimer email" DBREF="19092"/>
 </BIBCITS>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </TEXTUALFEATURES>
 <RECEPTION>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <RRESPONSES RESPONSETYPE="INITIAL" FORMALITY="FORMAL">
 <RSHEINFLUENCED>
 <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">L'épistre au dieu d'amours</TITLE> led
 to a lengthy intellectual debate about women, and to
 correspondence of <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME> with leading male French
 writers and intellectuals. <NAME STANDARD="Hoccleve, Thomas">Thomas Hoccleve</NAME> loosely translated her poem into
 English as <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC" REG="L'épistre au dieu d'amours">The
 Letter of Cupid</TITLE> in
 1402.</RSHEINFLUENCED>
 </RRESPONSES>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Yenal 78" DBREF="108716">78</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </RECEPTION>
 </DIV2>
 </DIV1>
 <DIV1>
 <HEADING>The 1400s</HEADING>
 <DIV2>
 <TEXTSCOPE DBREF="8340" PLACEHOLDER="CP, Epître d'Othéa, 1400, 1913"/>
 <PRODUCTION>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RESP="JAH" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RELEVANCE="PERIOD">
 <DATE VALUE="1400" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1400</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de
 Pisan</NAME> finished her second major <TGENRE GENRENAME="EPISTOLARY">epistolary <TGENRE GENRENAME="POETRY">poem</TGENRE>
 </TGENRE>, <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC" REG="Epitre d'Othéa">L'épîstre
 d' <TCHARACTERNAME REG="Othea">Otéa</TCHARACTERNAME>
 </TITLE>.</CHRONPROSE>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="McLeod xiv" DBREF="108375">xiv</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 <SCHOLARNOTE>
 
 <TCHARACTERNAME>Othea</TCHARACTERNAME> (the English form of the
 name) is an <TCHARACTERTYPEROLE PROTAGONIST="FEMALE">ancient
 Greek goddess</TCHARACTERTYPEROLE>.
 </SCHOLARNOTE>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 </PRODUCTION>
 <TEXTUALFEATURES>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 The poem takes the form of a letter she addresses to the
 <TCHARACTERTYPEROLE>Trojan hero</TCHARACTERTYPEROLE>
 <TCHARACTERNAME>Hector</TCHARACTERNAME> while he is a boy of
 fifteen, about the age of <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME>'s son when she wrote it.
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </TEXTUALFEATURES>
 </DIV2>
 <DIV2>
 <PRODUCTION>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME> chose a
 favourite mediaeval topic in 1403 for her <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">Livre de la mutation de fortune</TITLE>.
 <PEDITIONS>In 2016 an English version was forthcoming as <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">The Book of the
 <TTHEMETOPIC>Mutability of
 Fortune</TTHEMETOPIC>
 </TITLE>, translated and edited by <NAME STANDARD="Smith, Geri L.">Geri L.
 Smith</NAME>.</PEDITIONS>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </PRODUCTION>
 </DIV2>
 <DIV2>
 <TEXTSCOPE DBREF="8339" PLACEHOLDER="CP, Le livre du duc des vrais amans, c1404, 1886-1896"/>
 <TEXTUALFEATURES>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <TINTERTEXTUALITY GENDEROFAUTHOR="MALE" INTERTEXTTYPE="ANSWER">
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME>
 covered new ground in <DATE CERTAINTY="C" VALUE="1404" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE">about
 1404</DATE> in her <TGENRE GENRENAME="POETRY">narrative
 poem</TGENRE>
 <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">Le livre du duc des vrais
 amans</TITLE>, which goes further than she had before in
 <TTHEMETOPIC>challenging the adulterous paradigm of courtly
 love</TTHEMETOPIC>.<BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Pisan, Oeuvres poétiques III: 59" DBREF="8339">III: 59</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </TINTERTEXTUALITY>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </TEXTUALFEATURES>
 </DIV2>
 <DIV2>
 <HEADING>For the Dauphin</HEADING>
 <PRODUCTION>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <PMATERIALCONDITIONS>In the context of confused political power
 struggles in France, where the king, <NAME STANDARD="Charles VI,, King of France">Charles VI</NAME>,
 suffered from intermittent episodes of
 insanity,</PMATERIALCONDITIONS> CP wrote for the Dauphin, <NAME STANDARD="Guyenne, Louis de">Louis de Guyenne</NAME> (who never
 succeeded to the throne since he died before his father) two
 successive books on <TTHEMETOPIC>public life</TTHEMETOPIC>: <TGENRE GENRENAME="CONDUCTLITERATURE">moral and <TGENRE GENRENAME="POLITICALWRITING">political
 advice</TGENRE>
 </TGENRE> on the <TTHEMETOPIC>qualities which
 become a ruler</TTHEMETOPIC>. The first of these, <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">Le Livre du corps de policie</TITLE>,
 was written in 1406-07. An English translation was printed in 1994,
 edited as <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">The Book of the Body
 Politic</TITLE> by <NAME STANDARD="Forhan, Kate Langdon">Kate
 Langdon Forhan</NAME>, and the French text was edited for
 publication in 1998 by <NAME STANDARD="Kennedy, Angus J.">Angus J.
 Kennedy</NAME>.<BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT DBREF="1709" PLACEHOLDER="OCLC"/>
 </BIBCITS>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </PRODUCTION>
 </DIV2>
 <DIV2>
 <PRODUCTION>
 <CHRONSTRUCT CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RELEVANCE="PERIOD" RESP="IMG">
 <DATERANGE CERTAINTY="ROUGHLYDATED" EXACT="BOTH" FROM="1412" TO="1414" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE">Between 1412 and 14</DATERANGE>
 <CHRONPROSE>CP addressed to the Dauphin of France, <NAME STANDARD="Guyenne, Louis de">Louis de Guyenne</NAME>, another
 book of <TGENRE GENRENAME="CONDUCTLITERATURE">
 <TGENRE GENRENAME="POLITICALWRITING">political
 advice</TGENRE>
 </TGENRE> on <TTHEMETOPIC>how he ought to govern
 if he came to the throne</TTHEMETOPIC>: <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">Le Livre de paix</TITLE>, or <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">The Book of Peace</TITLE>.</CHRONPROSE>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT DBREF="151964" PLACEHOLDER="Venderville"/>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <PEDITIONS>An English translation was published in 2008, edited by
 <NAME STANDARD="Green, Karen">Karen Green</NAME>, <NAME STANDARD="Mews, C. J.">Constant J. Mews</NAME>, and <NAME STANDARD="Pinder, Janice">Janice Pinder</NAME>.</PEDITIONS>
 <PARCHIVALLOCATION>In early 2019 the <ORGNAME STANDARD="University of Toronto">University of
 Toronto</ORGNAME> announced its acquisition of a beautiful
 copy of this book, made about 1470 and illuminated using gold
 leaf. The other known copies survive in the national libraries
 of <PLACE>
 <GEOG>France</GEOG>
 </PLACE> and of
 <PLACE>
 <GEOG>Belgium</GEOG>
 </PLACE>.</PARCHIVALLOCATION>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT DBREF="1709" PLACEHOLDER="OCLC"/>
 <BIBCIT DBREF="151964" PLACEHOLDER="Venderville"/>
 </BIBCITS>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </PRODUCTION>
 <TEXTUALFEATURES>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 One of the topics discussed is the <TTHEMETOPIC>writer's
 relation to the body politic</TTHEMETOPIC>, including what we
 would call the <TTHEMETOPIC>freedom of the press</TTHEMETOPIC>.
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </TEXTUALFEATURES>
 </DIV2>
 <DIV2>
 <HEADING>
 <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC" REG="Le livre de la cité des dames">The City of
 Ladies</TITLE>
 </HEADING>
 <TEXTSCOPE DBREF="8330" PLACEHOLDER="CP, Le livre des trois vertus, 1405, 1912"/>
 <TEXTSCOPE DBREF="8331" PLACEHOLDER="CP, Le livre de la cité des dames, 1405, 1986"/>
 <PRODUCTION>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RESP="JAH" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RELEVANCE="SELECTIVE">
 <DATE VALUE="1405" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1405</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>
 <RBESTKNOWNWORK>
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME> wrote <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">Le livre des trois vertus</TITLE>
 and finished writing <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">Le livre de
 la cité des
 dames</TITLE>.</RBESTKNOWNWORK>
 </CHRONPROSE>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Yenal 44-6" DBREF="108716">44-6</BIBCIT>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="McLeod xvi" DBREF="108375">xvi</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <PEDITIONS>The latter, now called in English <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC" REG="Le livre de la cité des dames">The Book of the
 City of Ladies</TITLE> or <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC" REG="Le livre de la cité des dames">The City of
 Ladies</TITLE>, was translated by London printer <NAME STANDARD="Pepwell, Henry">Henry Pepwell</NAME> in <DATE VALUE="1521" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1521</DATE> as <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC" REG="Le livre de la cité des dames">The Boke of the
 Cyte of Ladyes</TITLE>; <PAUTHORSHIP>this unusually accurate
 translation is explicit about <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de
 Pisan</NAME>'s gender.</PAUTHORSHIP>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Summit 93" DBREF="13663">93</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </PEDITIONS>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </PRODUCTION>
 <TEXTUALFEATURES>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 This is another important work on the <TTHEMETOPIC>social position of
 women</TTHEMETOPIC>, <TTECHNIQUES>which musters all the
 strategies of late-medieval rhetorical debate in discussing such
 topics as <TTHEMETOPIC>female education</TTHEMETOPIC> and the
 <TTHEMETOPIC>institution of
 marriage</TTHEMETOPIC>.</TTECHNIQUES> It praises
 <TTHEMETOPIC>distinguished women of history such as <NAME STANDARD="Sappho">Sappho</NAME>
 </TTHEMETOPIC> (whose
 achievements disprove the <TTHEMETOPIC>scholastic conviction of
 women's intellectual inferiority</TTHEMETOPIC>).
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </TEXTUALFEATURES>
 <RECEPTION>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <RRESPONSES RESPONSETYPE="INITIAL" FORMALITY="FORMAL">It was much
 discussed in its own day,</RRESPONSES>
 <RRESPONSES RESPONSETYPE="RE-EVALUATION" FORMALITY="FORMAL">but,
 like other works by women, later dropped out of the literary and
 intellectual record.</RRESPONSES>
 <RRESPONSES>Recently it has received much critical attention,
 notably a monograph by <NAME STANDARD="Quilligan, Maureen">Maureen Quilligan</NAME>, <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">The Allegory of Female Authority, Christine de Pizan's
 Cité des dames</TITLE>, Cornell, 1992.</RRESPONSES>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="OCLC" DBREF="1709"/>
 </BIBCITS>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </RECEPTION>
 </DIV2>
 <DIV2>
 <HEADING>Joan of Arc</HEADING>
 <TEXTSCOPE DBREF="8332" PLACEHOLDER="CP, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc, 1429, 1977"/>
 <PRODUCTION>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RESP="JAH" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RELEVANCE="SELECTIVE">
 <DATE VALUE="1429-07-31" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">31 July 1429</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>
 <PLASTLITERARYACTIVITY>
 <PMOTIVES MOTIVETYPE="SELF-IDENTIFIED">
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME>
 finished her <TITLE TITLETYPE="MONOGRAPHIC">Ditié de
 Jehanne d'Arc</TITLE>, a <TGENRE GENRENAME="POETRY">poem</TGENRE> commemorating <TTHEMETOPIC>
 <NAME STANDARD="Joan of Arc">Joan of Arc</NAME>'s
 victory at
 <PLACE>
 <SETTLEMENT>Orléans</SETTLEMENT>
 <GEOG REG="France"/>
 </PLACE>
 </TTHEMETOPIC> that year,
 and the subsequent <TTHEMETOPIC>coronation of <NAME STANDARD="Charles VII,, King of France">Charles
 VII</NAME>
 </TTHEMETOPIC>.</PMOTIVES>
 </PLASTLITERARYACTIVITY>
 </CHRONPROSE>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="McLeod xx" DBREF="108375">xxi</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 </PRODUCTION>
 <TEXTUALFEATURES>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME>'s
 was the only poem to celebrate Joan during the latter's lifetime.<BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="McLeod xxi" DBREF="108375">xxi</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </TEXTUALFEATURES>
 </DIV2>
 </DIV1>
 <DIV1>
 <HEADING>Legacy</HEADING>
 <DIV2>
 <HEADING>Printing with Chaucer</HEADING>
 <PRODUCTION>
 <CHRONSTRUCT RESP="IMG" CHRONCOLUMN="WRITINGCLIMATE" RELEVANCE="DECADE">
 <DATE VALUE="1526" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE" CERTAINTY="CERT">1526</DATE>
 <CHRONPROSE>
 <PMOTIVES>
 <PEDITIONS>
 <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME>'s <TITLE TITLETYPE="ANALYTIC">
 <TGENRE GENRENAME="APHORISM">Proverbes</TGENRE> moraulx</TITLE>, written in
 <DATE VALUE="1400" CERTAINTY="C" CALENDAR="NEWSTYLE">about 1400</DATE> for
 the education of her son, were reprinted in <NAME STANDARD="Pynson, Richard">Richard Pynson</NAME>'s
 edition of <NAME STANDARD="Chaucer, Geoffrey">Chaucer</NAME>
 as <TITLE TITLETYPE="ANALYTIC" REG="Proverbes moraulx">The
 Morall proverbes of
 Christyne</TITLE>.</PEDITIONS>
 </PMOTIVES>
 </CHRONPROSE>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Summit 87, 92" DBREF="13663">87, 92</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </CHRONSTRUCT>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <RRESPONSES RESPONSETYPE="RECENT" FORMALITY="FORMAL" GENDEREDRESPONSE="GENDEREDYES">Critic <NAME STANDARD="Summit, Jennifer">Jennifer Summit</NAME> calls
 this a ghostly reminder that <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME> was the inventor of courtly
 polite literature.</RRESPONSES>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </PRODUCTION>
 </DIV2>
 <DIV2>
 <HEADING>Rape Scenes</HEADING>
 <RECEPTION>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <PRARITIESFEATURESDECORATIONS>Art historian <NAME STANDARD="Wolfthal, Diane">Diane Wolfthal</NAME> gives a
 whole chapter to the way that illustrators of <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de
 Pisan</NAME>'s work studiously avoided <TMOTIF MOTIFNAME="rape">rape</TMOTIF> scenes.<BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Wolfthal" DBREF="7271">127-50</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 </PRARITIESFEATURESDECORATIONS> A recent growth of
 serious interest in her work, and a harvest of high-level
 scholarship and critique, have replaced an earlier attitude which
 saw <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME>,
 both in herself and as a foremother, as equally deplorable. <NAME STANDARD="Lanson, Gustave">Gustave Lanson</NAME> exemplified
 this misogynist attitude in his prestigious late-nineteenth-century
 history of French literature when he called her <QUOTE DIRECT="Y" LAYOUT="INLINE">first of that insufferable lineage of women authors . . . who,
 during the whole life God gave them, keep busy multiplying the
 proofs of their tireless facility matched by their universal
 mediocrity.</QUOTE>
 <BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Collado 154" DBREF="32825" QTDIN="QTDINYES">154</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 <SCHOLARNOTE>
 
 <NAME STANDARD="Collado, Melanie E.">Melanie E.
 Collado</NAME> provides the English translation of this
 passage from French, but cites a later edition of
 Lanson's work which obscures his actual date.<BIBCITS>
 <BIBCIT PLACEHOLDER="Collado 154, 160" DBREF="32825">154, 160</BIBCIT>
 </BIBCITS>
 
 </SCHOLARNOTE>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </RECEPTION>
 </DIV2>
 <DIV2>
 <HEADING>Manuscripts</HEADING>
 <PRODUCTION>
 <SHORTPROSE>
 
 <PARCHIVALLOCATION>
 <PRARITIESFEATURESDECORATIONS>Both the <ORGNAME STANDARD="Bibliothèque Nationale">Bibliothèque Nationale</ORGNAME> in
 <PLACE>
 <SETTLEMENT>Paris</SETTLEMENT>
 <GEOG REG="France"/>
 </PLACE> and the <ORGNAME STANDARD="British Library">British Library</ORGNAME> in
 <PLACE>
 <SETTLEMENT>London</SETTLEMENT>
 <REGION REG="Middlesex"/>
 <GEOG REG="England"/>
 </PLACE> have
 important manuscripts of works by <NAME STANDARD="Christine de Pisan">Christine de Pisan</NAME>,
 many of them beautifully
 illuminated.</PRARITIESFEATURESDECORATIONS> Those at the
 British Library, including the <SOCALLED>Queen's
 Manuscript</SOCALLED> (Harleian 4431), have been filmed by
 <ORGNAME STANDARD="Adam Matthew Publications">Adam Matthew
 Publications</ORGNAME> in <TITLE TITLETYPE="SERIES">Medieval
 and Early Modern Women: Part I: Manuscripts from the British
 Library, London</TITLE>.</PARCHIVALLOCATION>
 
 </SHORTPROSE>
 </PRODUCTION>
 </DIV2>
 </DIV1>
 </WRITING>
 <WORKSCITED>
 <SOURCE>Unless otherwise noted, all information is from the FC</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>Carroll, Margaret D. Images of Rape. 1999.</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>Christine de Pisan. Oeuvres poetiques. 1886</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>Collado, Melanie E. How Dare They Write? 2004.</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>McLeod, Glenda K. (trans.) Christine de Pizan</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>McLeod, Glenda K. Christine de Pizan. 1993.</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>OCLC.</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>Reimer, Stephen R. Email. 1 December 2002.</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>Summit, Jennifer. Lost Property. 2000.</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>Unless otherwise noted, all information is from the FC.</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>Willard, Charity Cannon Christine de Pizan</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>Willard, Charity Cannon. Christine de Pizan. 1984.</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>Yenal, Edith Christine de Pisan</SOURCE>
 <SOURCE>Yenal, Edith Christine de Pisan. 1982.</SOURCE>
 </WORKSCITED>
 </DIV0>
</ENTRY>