An open library of thought
Answer the authorities with reason, history and experience.
Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.
These records present three works central to her moral and political thought. Her lyric poetry, the letters of the Rose debate, the Mutability of Fortune, the life of Charles V, the Deeds of Arms and Chivalry, the Vision, the Book of Peace and the poem on Joan of Arc are not yet indexed; this is a selection, not a complete bibliography.
011404–1405
Written in 1404 and 1405, the book reworks material from Boccaccio’s Famous Women and answers misogynist writers such as Matheolus. Its title echoes Augustine’s City of God; its three parts follow the building of the foundations, the houses and the towers.
021405
Completed in 1405 and dedicated to Margaret of Burgundy, wife of the dauphin, the book is also known as The Treasure of the City of Ladies. It was printed in Paris in 1497 and 1503 and translated into Portuguese in 1518.
031404–1407
Written between 1404 and 1407 for the dauphin Louis of Guyenne, it adapts the organic metaphor of John of Salisbury’s Policraticus and illustrates it with examples from Valerius Maximus. An English translation was printed in 1521.