Lanval and The Amazonians: How Power is Gained by Women, and What Those Methods Reveal About Them

You can also read this on Medium (featuring awesome Renaissance art!) here: https://medium.com/@emilystepp12/lanval-and-the-amazonians-how-power-is-gained-by-women-and-what-those-methods-reveal-about-them-759f548eb345 Within Marie de France’s Lanval and Christine de Pizan’s The Amazons, one sees two different ways in which a woman may perform a power reversal within her society or culture. It is interesting that while both of these involve a woman possessing …