Christine De Pizan was a female author during the medieval period. In the book of The City of the Ladies ( 1405) De Pizan confronts Europes Pagan past as St Augustine did in the city of God, she re-interprets myth and history (Christian as well as Latin and Greek) exposing strong clever saintly women hidden behind the patriarchal facade. She writes off her feelings as a woman when she sees her sex put down by wise and learned men, but elsewhere she also describes herself as having to become male as she became an author :”…from female I became male by fortune, who wanted it thus; so she changed me,both body and will, Into a natural perfect man; formally,I was a woman; now I am a man, I do not lie my stride demonstrates it well enough.”.
