What Were the Ladies in the City of Ladies Reading? The Libraries of Christine de Pizan’s Contemporaries

Argues that there is little reason to assume that Christine de Pizan had access to the royal library in the Louvre prior to 1403 and that the majority of her sources were available in the libraries of women who were her contemporaries and who are mentioned in her works. A table of the books owned by important royal women mentioned by Christine is provided.