Christine de Pisan: The Treasure of the City of Ladies

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Christine de Pisan:The Treasure of the City of Ladies
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844223.book-part-017

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Abstract

There is another condition of rank and of life than that of baronesses that pertains to ordinary ladies and young women living on or off their lands outside fine cities. Because barons and still more commonly knights and squires and gentlemen travel and go off to the wars, their wives should be wise and sound administrators and manage their affairs well, because most of the time they stay at home without their husbands, who are at court or abroad.

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