Option 2
1. Familiarize yourself with the course materials related to Christine de Pisan.
- Name one fact from de Pisan’s biography that affected his writing.
2. Based on the fragments from The Book of the City of Ladies:
- State a major idea or theme of the work.
- Select three direct quotations from the body of the work that best exemplifies its overall theme or major idea.
- Write how each of the quotations relates to or helps illustrate, what you claim is the main idea or theme of the work.
- Quotation 1: “…”. This quotation helps support the main idea because …
- Do you believe de Pisan’s work is still relevant today?Why?/Why not?
Write 300 words (quotes do not count towards the word count). Mark your quotations clearly and be mindful not to plagiarize.
