Reviews
"The first critical edition of Debat de deux amans, Le Livre des trois jugements, and the Le Livre du dit Poissy since Maurice Roy's a century ago, this study by a leading Christine scholar is important for several reasons. . . . [T]his new edition combines the best features of traditional scholarship and modern interpretation." -- Choice
--Choice
"This is a beautifully produced scholarly edition of Christine de Pizan's three debate poems. . . . Prepared with great attention to detail, this edition gives us an excellent text of these poems which have received little scholarly attention, a situation which this edition may help to change."-- Arthuriana
--Arthuriana
"Altmann has put all late medieval scholars in her debt by making available an excellent critical edition of Christine de Pizan's three debate poems."-- Medium Aevum
--Medium Aevum
"The University Press of Florida is making an excellent name for itself in the medieval field by publishing remarkably good value volumes, with spacious page-layout, good pring, and nice bindings: this careful, scholarly book is a pleasing example. It is a pleasure to have the present compendium, a coherent set of debate-poems, which introduce a Christine likely to be particularly attractive from a twenty-first century point of view: not lyric, not didactic, not convolutedly allegorical." - FS
--FS
"This elegant volume, illustrated with four magnificent colour plates, is beautifully designed, a credit to publisher and editor. Barbara Altmann is to be congratulated on an extremely good edition that will be used with great profit by all Christine scholars." -Modern Language Review
--Modern Language Review
"Altmann's is a rich and complete critical edition." -French Review
--French Review
"A distinct contribution to our understanding of this now very popular fifteenth-century writer." -Speculum
--Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies