The subject that I have chosen for my biography is Christine de
             Pisan. I chose her because I have never heard of her before and therefore;
             her life and her work would shed light on my knowledge of history and open
             up new avenues to work on. Furthermore, I was curious as to what the women
             had done during her life that inspired and changed the society during that
             Cultural and political setup of that time
             In the early fifteenth-century in England, majority of the young male
             members of the aristocrats received their education in the patriarchal
             family, where they were educated and skilled on the subjects of estate
             management, jousting, hunting, heraldry and ethics. As time progressed,
             this customary approach was changed by a classical education that
             emphasized logic and discipline, as well as prepared the young for service
             to a country that was progressively more preoccupied with colonial
             The new educational literature comprised of translations and versions
             of the philosophers and historians of prehistoric Rome, particularly Seneca
             and Cicero. The writings of classical authors had been popularized all
             through the control of Charles V of France (1364-80), who had commissioned
             French translations of Levy, and the Morals and Politics of Aristotle.
             Translations of Seneca and Cicero followed in the period of influence of
             Charles VI (1380-1422). Christine de Pisan (1364-c. 1430), who matured at
             the court of Charles V, sought after a wider view of the purposes of the
             governing class as skilled civil servants rather than as preserved
             nobility. Seeing the solution to this developing function as education, she
             was the first to employ these authors in this way (Willard, 4).
             Christine de Pizan was able to develop into a flourishing writer in a
             time when women had no lawful rights and were m...