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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: 1363 births, 1363 deaths, 1363 establishments, 1363 in Europe, 1363 in international relations, 1363 works, Conflicts in 1363, Christine de Pizan, Jean Gerson, Philip, Count of Longueville, John Komnenos Asen, In Coena Domini, Battle of Lake Poyang, Blanche of Namur, Thomas Langley, Margaret of Bavaria, Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster, Tughlugh Timur, Jean de Montaigu, List of state leaders in 1363, Patriarch Callistus I of Constantinople, Mary of Sicily, Agnese Visconti, Chen Youliang, U of Goryeo, Zeami Motokiyo, Malcolm Fleming, Earl of Wigtown, Constance of widnica, Simone Boccanegra, Amadeus, Prince of Achaea, Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde, Certosa di San Giacomo, Tomas ap Rhodri, Kristinas Astikas, Meinhard III of Gorizia-Tyrol, Jean, Count of Montpensier, Ralph of Shrewsbury, Constance of Aragon, Queen of Sicily, John Bardolf, 3rd Baron Bardolf, Theodosius of Tarnovo, Hwang Hui, Leopold III of Bebenburg, Altoman Vojinovi, Thomas de Clifford, 6th Baron de Clifford, Adil-Sultan, Andouin Aubert, Thomas MacDowell, Joan of Valois, Countess of Beaumont, Niccolo di Ser Sozzo Tegliaccio, Banquet of the Five Kings, Royal Convent of Santa Clara, Joch Tengin. Excerpt: Christine de Pisan (also seen as de Pizan) (1363 - c. 1430) was a Venetian-born woman of the medieval era who strongly challenged misogyny and stereotypes prevalent in the male-dominated medieval culture. As a poet, she was well known and highly regarded in her own day. She spent most of her childhood and all of her adult life primarily in Paris and then the abbey at Poissy, and wrote entirely in her adoptive tongue of Middle French. Her early courtly poetry is marked by her knowledge of aristocratic custom and fashion of the day, particularly involving women and the practice of chivalry. Her early and later allegorical and didactic t...
