Christine sans Christine

We know Christine de Pizan as one of the greatest poets and writers late Middle Ages, but she might have had other strings to her bow. This paper extends field studies manuscripts outside corpus texts, which could be indebted in way or another. Her interest images talent for creating new compositions was influential numerous borrowings testify since time, among others allegorized clock temperance, wheel Fortune populated by rising fallen kings, Perseus armed with a scythe riding Pegasus. Like contemporaries Honorat Bovet Jean Lebègue, can rightly considered an iconographer. A copy Grandes Chroniques France (Paris, Bibl. Mazarine, ms. 2028), that unusually highlights Queen France, seems reflect political ideals through models past queens represented their advantage. It may no accident two favorite illuminators were at work this manuscript, Master Epître d’Othéa Cité des Dames. Thus question arises whether should not add talents those supplier books adviser queen.