Abstract
In “The Book of the City of Ladies”, an apologetic piece created as a literary defense of womanhood, the most original and outstanding chapters are those, which contain the stories of Amazons. Christine de Pizan, contrary to other Medieval authors, uses canonical plot lines to mediate not a negative image of Amazons as a wild and cruel tribe, but to place them among heroines of Antiquity and biblical female characters. Therefore, in this new narrative women from the “The Book of the City of Ladies” acquire features that traditionally belong to noble knights and wise rulers, the male heroes on the opposite are inferior to them in courage, military prowess and virtue. The article contains a translation of an excerpt from “The Book of the City of Ladies” and a detailed commentary on it with a history of literary evolution of mentioned characters and common views on Amazons in that period..
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