Zur Subversion des höfischen Liebesdiskurses: Christine de PizansCent Ballades d’amant et de dame(1409–1410) zwischen Erotik, Misogynie und marienhafter Selbstinszenierung

Abstract

AbstractThis contribution analyses the tension betweenimitatioandrenovatioin Christine de Pizan’sCent Ballades d’amant et de dame(1409–1410). It aims to show that Pizan intertwines traditional courtly discourse with fragments of Jean de Meun’s and Ovid’s writings, in order to denounce the courtly topos of worship of the lady as a manipulative strategy of seduction. In this way, she emphasizes the misogynistic conditions of the sublimated muteness and passivity of women in courtly discourse and engages in meta-reflections on her own role as a writer in the cultural context of theQuerelle des femmesand on the historical decline of France during the reign of Charles VI.